Hi, ÃÂ I work with B20 Cygnus/Cygwin under W2K. ÃÂ Any command requiring input from the console halts the shell. Nothing can be entered or even typing control-C will not interrupt the shell. I have to kill the Cygwin command box. ÃÂ Examples: read, rm -i file, etc. ÃÂ Thanks in advance, Johan Holtman