What about reducing distributed exes size using UPX? Has it any side-kicks on cygwni binaries? Of course bz2 archives wouldn't change but installed size could. Just an idea (and I found nothing in the archives regarding it 0=) ). -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)