Hi Giacomo, If necessary/possible, please install the latest net-utils package (>= 1.23) and then use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html It will tell us more about your XEmacs environment. Please follow then instructions in the bug reporting buffer. Best regards, Adrian giacomo> i had to manually create a `dir' file in .../xemacs-packages/info, giacomo> while, iicr, info used to generate a `dir' on the fly giacomo> the relevant variable looks ok to me: giacomo> (insert (pp Info-directory-list)) giacomo> ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.5-b4/info/" giacomo> "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/" giacomo> "/usr/local/info" giacomo> "/usr/info" giacomo> "/usr/share/info") -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/