I'm working furiously to get the Alpha/VMS version to build natively using standard configure and Unix tools, e.g. bash, so yes, a lot of it will go away. Douglas Rupp Ada Core Technologies, Inc. >alpha/xm-vms.h: >vax/xm-vms.h: >Lots of stuff, which I am not qualified to evaluate. I >suspect a lot of it is unnecessary with modern VMS.