Doesn't $PATH come into this? Cygwin.dll may well have some inbuilt commands too? Being a heavey Cygwin user who does not venture too deep ! Ian_Uk . -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple