Hi, I have had no problems with the (rather limited) set of documents I maintain in LaTeX, and the system has worked like a charm about generating new pk files and even tfm files, and maintaining the ls-lar database. This is more than I could say about what I had previously. manoj -- Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>