Building perl with gnu-win32 works quite well with default 'unixish' persona but for setpwent(). I can make it "work" with -Dsetpwent=endpwent As endpwent() has a stub but setpwent() has not. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".