sb> The .au sounds directory (etc/sounds) is no longer distributed with sb> the XEmacs core. You will need to obtain and install the sounds-au sb> package in order to have sound. The sounds-wav package is for sb> sound on Microsoft Windows. Steven, the package tarball /ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/xemacs-21.0/packages/ \ binary-packages/sounds-wav-1.0-pkg.tar.gz looks corrupted to me. aichner＠tomorrow(1) ls -l sound* -rw-r--r-- 1 aichner stdsoft 163840 Jun 2 04:28 sounds-au-1.0-pkg.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 aichner stdsoft 190181 Jun 2 04:23 sounds-wav-1.0-pkg.tar.gz aichner＠tomorrow(2) gunzip sounds-wav-1.0-pkg.tar.gz aichner＠tomorrow(3) !ls ls -l sound* -rw-r--r-- 1 aichner stdsoft 163840 Jun 2 04:28 sounds-au-1.0-pkg.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 aichner stdsoft 256000 Jun 2 04:23 sounds-wav-1.0-pkg.tar aichner＠tomorrow(4) It expands to a suspicious size and Windows NT's explorer tells me "This file is invalid or crrupted." for all of the following which I checked with File->Properties->Details. bark.wav bass-snap.wav boing.wav bong.wav click.wav clink.wav cuckoo.wav ding.wav ... yeep.wav Later, Adrian sb> If you patch up or cvs update up, please make sure that the now empty sb> etc/sounds directory gets deleted. -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Straße 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MÜNCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com