Forwarding to xemacs-beta and ben. Please send reports with crashes to both xemacs-beta and xemacs-buildreports. For 21.5 you may also want to send to "ben(a)xemacs.org", as ben doesn't read xemacs-beta everyday. The change in the modeline may have to do with making file-coding non-optional (you don't get Mule, you do get Unix/DOS newline detection). -- 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