Looking on the HP2 at Bonn in /usr/lib hp177_egreisen<512> grep -l xdrmem_create *.* libc.1 libc.a libc.sl libc_r.sl libnsfmt.1 libnsfmt.sl libpicc.a hp177_egreisen<513> grep -l xdr_float *.* libc.1 libc.a libc.sl libc_r.sl libpicc.a librwtool.1 librwtool.a librwtool.sl hp177_egreisen<514> Do you have $LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to something ? If so unset it. Eric Greisen