I just pushed the wrong button and sent NOTHING! I am intending to say that FYI the latest cvs of short-words does compile here ok with SuSE 9.0 WITHOUT the dreaded, which fredd got, of, ./configure --with-qt-includes=/path/to/qt/includes (as of Thurdsay 3 PM California USA time) I gave it the path ./configure --prefix=/usr/local Bart Alberti