Hi Mike! In the EFS ChangeLog, I see: 2003-08-07 Mike Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; * efs.el (efs-month-and-time-regexp): Rewrite to match Dired. (efs-file-size-submatch): (efs-month-date-submatch): (efs-time-or-year-submatch): Add. ---> (efs-month-regexp-alist): Replaces `efs-month-alist'. Should handle lotsa more languages than before. However, in efs-cp-p.el, there is still: (defun efs-local-time () (let ((str (current-time-string))) (efs-seconds-elapsed (string-to-int (substring str -4)) ---> (cdr (assoc (substring str 4 7) efs-month-alist)) (string-to-int (substring str 8 10)) (string-to-int (substring str 11 13)) (string-to-int (substring str 14 16)) 0))) ; don't care about seconds So, whenever you copy a file you get a: Symbol's value as variable is void: efs-month-alist I apologise for not sending a patch to fix it along with this report, I've got an awful lot going on at the moment. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|