cl-launch has evolved quite a bit, worked around a few implementation bugs, and is now rather stable. Can you have a peek at cl-launch and tell me if you could (a) integrate its fasl cacheing mechanism to c-l-c? (b) include cl-launch in debian? http://www.cliki.net/cl-launch The next logical step for cl-launch would be to add an image-dumping feature to it. But I have no time or interest to gather the required data at the moment. BTW, (1) c-l-c should really use $LOGNAME instead of $HOME, for its per-user cache hierarchy, and per-user directories should be created by root with restricted permissions, otherwise, there's a security hole with a malicious user pre-loading another user's fasl cache with nasty things. (2) since we need root permissions to do things, why not just have root compile the fasl in a controller environment? (--no-user-init and such) IIRC c-l-c used to do that -- why did it stop? [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld