cgw> I'm running 21.0 "Norwegian" on a Linux 2.0.34 system and cgw> using VM 6.53 for mail. cgw> When I hit "g" to get messages, more often than not, XEmacs cgw> hangs indefinitely, and ... cgw> when I forcibly remove "cgw.lock", XEmacs wakes up again. This is probably because you're using a mailer which uses a different locking scheme. Do you have mandatory locks enabled in your kernel? Which distribution, if any, are you using (I'm guessing RedHat)? You could try configuring XEmacs to use a different locking scheme---but this is potentially a recipe for losing mail. Study the situation _very_ carefully. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +1 (298) 53-5091