Fergus Henderson wrote: > Try > > bash$ FOO=hello echo $FOO What are you expecting that to do? $FOO gets evaluated when the line is read, before FOO is set, on *any* system. Try instead bash$ FOO=hello; echo $FOO; unset FOO -- <J Q B> - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".