hah yeh that has teed me off as well for past few years with XP as well... if you can figure out a way to do it via XP's cmd.exe also as well cygwin's command line, would be great. -- 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/