The docstrings for `start-process' and `start-process-internal' refer to non-existent arguments INCODE and OUTCODE. It looks to me from the implementation of `start-process' that these are not arguments at all, but rather are computed from `process-coding-system-alist' and bound to `coding-system-for-read' and `coding-system-for-write' respectively. The coding style is opaque; I don't have time this week to figure it out? Could somebody with a clue about this code check it? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."