Don't know what triggers this: Trying to use C-x d (dired) in emacs-version "21.0 \"Corsican\" XEmacs Lucid" leads this After (load-file "/export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/dired/dired.el") dired works again. This seems yet another instance of those funny elc problems I've been having with Gnus. This happens with dired-version "7.9". Any clues? Adrian -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com