Stefen, et al: I'm not completely in the loop with where or who might be maintaining the pcl-cvs code base, but a recent change to one of my cvs servers (moved up to version 1.12.9) caused some parse errors in pcl-cvs. I did notice reference to the same error on the gnu.org lists: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2004-10/msg00125.html ... But no other references turned up in my googling on the topic. A couple of quick hack patches have fixed the problem for all the various servers I use, some new, some older, but someone else should look over the code to ensure that I've not made some other drastic error. Otherwise, if you could apply the enclosed patch for future revisions, that would be appreciated. Eric -- Eric Engstrom Pr. Research Scientist, AES Embedded Systems, Honeywell Intl. eric.engstrom(a)honeywell.com - Phone: 612/951-7318 (Fax:-7438)