Kayvan> It seems fine, except that I am concerned about checking for the exact Kayvan> string CYGWIN_NT-5.0
Kayvan> What happens with the ``uname -s'' string changes to CYGWIN_NT-5.1? Kayvan> I think it might be better to have a case statement there: Kayvan> sysname=`uname -s` Kayvan> case "$sysname" in Kayvan> CYGWIN*) Kayvan> [... code ...] ;; Kayvan> *) Kayvan> [... default case here ...];; Kayvan> esac Do you have time to play an prepare the patch? I'm rather busy at the moment and would appreciated if you could add and test the case statement. Thanks Soeren ====================================================================== Q: Why was Stonehenge abandoned? A: It wasn't IBM compatible.