The --silent parameter seems to have no effect. I still get messages listing every typescript in use on every pass: e.g., (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/hdb1/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (./type-charter.tex The above is repeated about four times. All this trivia slows down the compile process significantly. I am using texexec 5.4.3. I get warning messages telling me to use texmfstart instead but since that script is not functional on my machine I just use texexec. It seems to work OK except for the --silent script. On Linux I can always say: texexec book.tex >/dev/null but this obscures error messages as well. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com