diff --git a/Headers/Foundation/NSInvocation.h b/Headers/Foundation/NSInvocation.h
index 1ec0ba3a1..7ea063552 100644
--- a/Headers/Foundation/NSInvocation.h
+++ b/Headers/Foundation/NSInvocation.h
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ extern "C" {
 + (NSInvocation*) _returnInvocationAndDestroyProxy: (id)proxy;
 - (id) initWithArgframe: (arglist_t)frame selector: (SEL)aSelector;
 - (id) initWithMethodSignature: (NSMethodSignature*)aSignature;
-- (id) initWithSelector: (SEL)aSelector;
 - (void*) returnFrame: (arglist_t)argFrame;
 @end
 
diff --git a/Source/NSDistantObject.m b/Source/NSDistantObject.m
index a945da63b..d7ea43ab0 100644
--- a/Source/NSDistantObject.m
+++ b/Source/NSDistantObject.m
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 
 @interface NSDistantObject(GNUstepExtensions)
 - (Class) classForPortCoder;
-- (const char *) selectorTypeForProxy: (SEL)selector;
 - (id) forward: (SEL)aSel :(arglist_t)frame;
 - (void) finalize;
 @end
@@ -881,24 +880,6 @@ static inline BOOL class_is_kind_of (Class self, Class aClassObject)
 
 
 
-/**
- * For backward compatibility ... do not use this method.<br />
- * Returns the type information ... the modern way of doing this is
- * with the -methodSignatureForSelector: method.
- */
-- (const char *) selectorTypeForProxy: (SEL)selector
-{
-#if NeXT_RUNTIME
-  /* This isn't what we want, unless the remote machine has
-     the same architecture as us. */
-  const char *t;
-  t = [_connection typeForSelector: selector remoteTarget: _handle];
-  return t;
-#else /* NeXT_runtime */
-  return sel_get_type (selector);
-#endif
-}
-
 /**
  * For backward compatibility ... do not use this method.<br />
  * Handle old fashioned forwarding to the proxy.
@@ -973,24 +954,6 @@ static inline BOOL class_is_kind_of (Class self, Class aClassObject)
 @end
 
 
-@implementation NSObject (NSDistantObject)
-- (const char *) selectorTypeForProxy: (SEL)selector
-{
-#if NeXT_runtime
-  {
-    Method m = GSGetInstanceMethod(isa, selector);
-    if (m)
-      return m->method_types;
-    else
-      return NULL;
-  }
-#else
-  return sel_get_type (selector);
-#endif
-}
-
-@end
-
 @implementation Protocol (DistributedObjectsCoding)
 
 - (Class) classForPortCoder
diff --git a/Source/NSInvocation.m b/Source/NSInvocation.m
index c07bb69be..843ceb8f6 100644
--- a/Source/NSInvocation.m
+++ b/Source/NSInvocation.m
@@ -785,34 +785,6 @@ _arg_addr(NSInvocation *inv, int index)
   return nil;
 }
 
-/**
- * Tries to produce a method signature based on aSelector and uses that to
- * initialise self by calling the -initWithMethodSignature: method.<br />
- * If the argument type of aSelector cannot be determined, this releases self
- * and returns nil.
- */
-- (id) initWithSelector: (SEL)aSelector
-{
-  const char *types;
-  NSMethodSignature *newSig;
-
-  types = sel_get_type(aSelector);
-  if (types == 0)
-    {
-      types
-        = sel_get_type(sel_get_any_typed_uid(sel_getName(aSelector)));
-    }
-  if (types == 0)
-    {
-      NSLog(@"Couldn't find encoding type for selector %s.",
-	   sel_getName(aSelector));
-      DESTROY(self);
-      return nil;
-    }
-  newSig = [NSMethodSignature signatureWithObjCTypes: types];
-  return [self initWithMethodSignature: newSig];
-}
-
 /**
  * Internal use.<br />
  * Provides a return frame that the ObjectiveC runtime can use to