Merci / thanks /Gracie to all who responded to my earlier message.

I finally managed to D'load the CVS emacs and try to compile using E. 
Franconi's INSTALL instructions, but failed in the early stages of 
'make'. The problem could be on my side, my version of apple's 
dev-tools is not the very latest.

I will keep trying and report if/when progress occurs (!).

Regards,

Antoine Gautier

Faculté des Sciences de l'administration
Université Laval
internet : http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/personnel/gautiera/
courriel : antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca