About the question of E. Reiner: texconfig and ed texconfig requires ed that is not inside cygwin.
My solution was to modify texconfig in order to replace the calls to ed by calls to ex (--> vim) It works fine. I include my modified texconfig, that also includes a small change to ajust a problem with the creation of the links plain.base --> mf.base and plain.mem -->mpost.mem Note that this texconfig does the contrary of the traditional links (i.e. mf.base --> plain.base) Rodrigo Medina Centro de Fisica, IVIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/