>>>>> On Fri, 02 Oct 1998, Jari Mäkelä said: JM> emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l imap.el -f batch-byte-compile nnimap.el JM> Cannot open doc string file "/usr/share/emacs/20.2/etc/DOC-20.2.1" Hm. Do you have a DOC file in that directory with a different version number (but also 20.2)? Then a symlink might help. kai -- OOP: object oriented programming; OOPS: object oriented mistakes