This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Wed Nov 10 1999 on ZJ75T configured using `configure UNKNOWN' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Bring up Windows NT Task Manager Start xemacs -vanilla Note the number Handles XEmacs has open. Run M-x compile RET dir RET Note new number of open handles, which will have increased by 3. Best regards, Adrian Recent keystrokes: C-x o C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n RET button3 misc-user button3up C-x 0 C-x ` C-x o C-l C-x ` C-x 1 M-> M-< M-> C-x C-b C-x o C-x C-b C-s G r RET C-s C-s C-s RET C-x C-z button1 button1up misc-user misc-user C-x C-b M-x c o m p i l e RET C-a C-k d i r RET M-x M-p RET M-p M-n M-p RET C-x C-n M-x c o m p i l e RET RET M-x M-p RET M-p M-n M-p RET M-x M-p RET RET misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Wrong type argument: natnump, -1 No preceding item in compile-history C-x C-n not defined. Wrong type argument: natnump, -1 No preceding item in compile-history No more errors yet Auto-saved xemacs-make-all.err No more grep hits Wrote d:\tmp\21.2\xemacs\src\sysdep.c Wrote d:\tmp\21.2\xemacs\src\sysdep.c