Please upload: http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/setup.hint http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/smartmontools-5.33cvs20051205-1.tar.bz2 http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/smartmontools-5.33cvs20051205-1-src.tar.bz2 The regular expression error message reported recently is fixed in this new release. Christian