Norbert> Hi! Norbert> I've been trying to find the error in efs which causes Norbert> files to be interpreted as directories (and, as a Norbert> consequence, not being found). My main concern being Norbert> package-index.LATEST.pgp. Norbert> During byte compilation of efs.el, I got the following Norbert> dump: Norbert, you are using native NT XEmacs to do this? Which (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.1 (patch 10) \"Capitol Reef\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Fri Jun 09 2000 on ZJ75T" Are you tring to build the efs package (make --unix bindist)? I have seen weird EFS behavior in XEmacs-21.2-b34+ too, but haven't investigated. Could this have to do with this bug I reported? Try setting directory-sep-char from ?\\ to ?\/ Hope this helps, Adrian Norbert> Lisp backtrace follows: Norbert> # bind (print-message-label) Norbert> display-error((wrong-type-argument stringp Norbert> Not very interesting. And