cgw> In edict-1.01-pkg.tar.gz the following files have cgw> read-permission only for the owner: Steve's XEmacs.rules and package-compile.el make it all _too_ easy to build a package, even if one lacks a few brain cells. Sigh. This one's my bad. Thanks for the notification, Charles. I've checked in new sources (0.9.8; updates data-finding code to conform with the XEmacs 21 interface and provides some compatibility with That Other Emacs) through CVS. The file permissions fixed themselves somewhere along the line. :-/ I don't have (or don't know how to use if I have it) upload access to the FTP server, but for now you can get edict-1.02-pkg.tar.gz edict-1.02-src.tar.gz relative to the URL http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/packages/edict/ (note that this is an HTTP URL, not FTP). This is still a beta release. You can also get the README and ChangeLog relative to that URL.