I forgot to mention one important new feature of Cygwin 1.1.1. DJ has made some modifications to newlib which now allow ftell/fseek to work correctly on a text mode file. This is a long-standing problem in cygwin which I'm very happy to see fixed. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com