Hans and all, there are two unpleasant things in the lates releases which may be bugs: 1. newtexexec --module --pdf does not work, it just doesn't process the modules (works with "old" texexec) 2. not sure if this is a misconfiguration on my system, but when I try to use texmfstart, I get this error: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ kpseremote.rb:8:in `require': No such file to load -- base/kpse/drb (LoadError) from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ base/kpseremote.rb:8 from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb:39:in `require' from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb:39 All best Thomas