On my system, at least, there is a problem with a Windows-related patch to gnuclient.c (by Raymond Toy) which was included in the patch from 21.0-b56 to 21.0-b57. Executing 'gnuclient -q [filename]' would bring up a new XEmacs window, but rather than the file requested appearing in the window there would be a dired listing of the directory. I tried recompiling XEmacs-21.0-b57 with the b56 version of gnuclient.c substituted for the patched version, and gnuclient works as it should. This is on a Linux 2.1.125 glibc system. Larry Ayers