> Maybe wodim sends its help output to stderr instead of stdout. that's the case, thanks, this works: wodim --help > wodim-help.txt 2>&1 -- 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