Andreas> I've uploaded some test packages to Andreas> ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/beta/incoming. Andreas> You can use: (setq package-get-remote '(("ftp.xemacs.org" Andreas> "xemacs/beta/incoming"))) Andreas> to get the packages. Andreas> psgml has been updated in CVS but is not included due to some Andreas> packaging problems. Andreas> Please test the packages and report any problems asap. APA> I did so this evening. Thanks. APA> After updating APA> Added package `xemacs-devel' APA> Added package `xemacs-base' APA> Added package `viper' APA> Added package `text-modes' APA> Added package `texinfo' APA> Added package `prog-modes' APA> Added package `os-utils' APA> Added package `mail-lib' APA> Added package `locale' APA> Added package `games' APA> Added package `edit-utils' APA> Added package `ediff' APA> I found that xemacs-base is unusable for me. : APA> compile.el causes this error in APA> (emacs-version) APA> "XEmacs 21.1 (patch 9) \"Canyonlands\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Sun APA> Feb 27 2000 on ZJ75T" APA> Signaling: (end-of-file "internal input stream") APA> load-internal("compile" nil t nil binary) APA> load("compile" nil t nil) APA> require(compile) APA> eval((require (quote compile))) APA> eval-interactive((require (quote compile))) APA> eval-last-sexp(nil) APA> call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) APA> To reproduce, just put APA> (require 'compile) APA> in your .emacs. APA> I have seen above error before. APA> It always occurs when I first use APA> M-x igrep-find APA> in a newly started XEmacs (also NT native build). I can't reproduce this on Linux [1]. I've installed all packages and started xemacs -vanilla, evaluated (require 'compile) in the scratch buffer and didn't see any problem. This doesn't look like a general problem. Can you check this please - or can other reproduce this and help finding the problem? Thanks, Andreas Footnotes: [1] And I don't have access to NT - and don't want to ;-) -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj(a)suse.de private aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de