APA> Builds and starts fine. APA> However, following problem persists: "Persists" relative to _all_ recent 21.4? Just the mainline (ie, not Windows)? A problem with file-truename could be related to problems reported by lots of people using 21.4.10rc1 on Windows. Signaling: (file-error "Finding truename" "Input/output error" "c:\\Users\\AichnerAd\\*.txt") file-truename("c:\\Users\\AichnerAd\\*.txt") dired-directory-truename("c:\\Users\\AichnerAd\\*.txt") dired-find-buffer-nocreate("c:\\Users\\AichnerAd\\*.txt" nil) dired-internal-noselect("c:\\Users\\AichnerAd\\*.txt" nil) dired-noselect("~\\*.txt" nil) #<compiled-function (dirname &optional switches) "...(7)" [switches dirname switch-to-buffer dired-noselect] 4 ("c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\dired\\dired.elc" . 32719) (dired-read-dir-and-switches "")>("~\\*.txt" nil) call-interactively(dired) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py