Hallo Pavel, Am Freitag, 8. August 2003 um 00:03 schriebst du: > Ok, here is my description of the problem. [...] And what is your oppinion (in one sentence) about the root of the problem? Is it a 'bug' in perl or a 'bug' in cygwin or is just that a perl script never should do s.th. like this? Gerrit -- =^..^=