At 05:04 03/12/98 -0800, SL Baur wrote: If we were very concerned about disk sizes we could always distribute the packages with the lisp pre-compressed and then uncompress it if the user wishes rather than the other way round. This would probably reduce the transient disk requirements. Another possibility would be to delete only the old el files to start with and only unpack the new elc's. Then once you're sure you have a functioning package. Unload the rest. I guess you could do this only if space is tight. This would probably appeal to me a 5am ....... andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp