Well, I think the problem is due to cygwin/Windows limitation: you can't have a link named latex that points to pdfetex.exe But correct me if I'm not right. Bert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/