viteno> Uh, what's happening during the mule-test? It takes ages viteno> on my system, yes quite old, but still ... Oh, nothing except that it constructs every single character by running down all the integers and testing for int-char-p and stuff like that. The mule-test takes more time than the rest of the tests put together on all of my systems. Tests are supposed to be thorough, not fast. :-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.