Hi, we (Allin and I) have talked about a closely related issue last week (offline), but here's a variant that really seems to fulfill the bug criterion: When I want to create a new function package in the GUI and I'm not connected to the internet, then upon trying to save the package (locally) gretl asks me to specify a tag first. But because I'm offline gretl doesn't show the tag dropdown lists in the package creation window. (The latter behavior is the thing we already talked about.) So it's impossible to save the package. When instead I select "write a spec file" gretls asks me to save the package first... I guess the natural solution would be that gretl ships with a tag list that is current at release, just like it comes with a version of the manual. In analogy to the pdf manual, if the tag list is not present in the install location gretl could try to fetch it from the server instead. thanks, sven