Dieter> Dear Bug Team! Dieter> I'm using and only really starting to learn the detail of Dieter> xemacs recently. I am getting the following error message Dieter> as in the recent messages window. I'm trying to use the Dieter> vhdl-mode and quite succesfully up till today. I stumbled Dieter> over a bug report 21.4.11 with a similar problem as in Dieter> java. I'm running windows XP and have checked that the Dieter> file c:\WINDOWS\system32\find.exe exists. Man, I've spent Hi Dieter! MS find is probably not what XEmacs wants, but you have not told us how to reproduce your problem with a few simple steps. See Benefits of Cygwin for Native Windows XEmacs in http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/ Please use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you. If XEmacs does not build or start up, please send any version and configuration information you have to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org with any mailer as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, please don't send HTML mail). Dieter> the while day trying to track the problem. I've even Dieter> reinstalled the whole xemacs and yet it still gives this Dieter> error. Dieter> I'm not sure how to generate all the information needed to Dieter> debug this but I can gice you this: Dieter> eval-expr RET system-type RET returns window-nt Dieter> Recent messages: Dieter> Loading fast-lock... Dieter> Loading fast-lock...done Dieter> Loading time... Dieter> Loading time...done Dieter> Loading efs-cu... Dieter> Loading efs-cu...done Dieter> Loading vhdl-mode... Dieter> File mode specification error: (file-error "Searching for program" "No such Dieter> file or directory" "find") Dieter> exec-path returned the following Dieter> ("%SystemRoot%\\system32\\" "%SystemRoot%\\" Dieter> "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\Wbem\\" "C:\\Program Files\\Xemacs\\XEmacs- Dieter> 21.4.11\\i586-pc-win32\\" "C:\\Program Files\\Xemacs\\xemacs-packages\\lib- Dieter> src\\" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.11\\i586-pc-win32\\") Dieter> Please help, I can't continue my work with out this!! Dieter> Greetings Dieter Dieter> Dieter Mellet Dieter> IC Design Engineer Dieter> Tel: +27 21 863 0033 (GMT +2) Dieter> www.azoteq.com -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/