ms> I now realize why I never saw the problems you're seeing: The ms> macro causing the defect is Win32-specfic. Anyways, I've Stephen> Not all of them; I'm seeing problems on Linux, too. Sorry for being unclear: The two defects Dan was seeing were both Win32-specific. (He was the "you" in the above quote.) I did fix a few other macro-related problems I found by inspecting the source. This seemed to be the most important problem with the JDE package. I'll re-check on the compilation-from-scratch problem next weekend. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla