Just to keep you posted, I'm still not sure what goes wrong when asdf- install tries to read the ASD file for Albert while testing. When I try: sbcl --load "startup.lisp" I get a simple-error. The error occurs within the error handler that AIT wraps around the call to ASDF-Install but doesn't seem to be catching the error. That's probably a misdiagnosis and I'll look into more soon. -- Gary Warren King metabang.com http://www.metabang.com/