thanks Igor, and also Dave, I totally appreciate both of your time on this (can't say I liked the insult much Dave, but my mistake was accidental you know. Maybe it's a Scottish thing that we treat people with respect until they disrespect us, I guess we don't think we should have to put up with insults from anyone, ... we're stubborn that way !).
I'll work through your explanations tomorrow Igor. I had no idea there was so much going on under cygwin, I kind of assumed that the bunch-of-files and configuration information sat in the cygwin folder, until at runtime when the bash shell was invoked, the cygwin dll somehow bound all the files together into a workable system at that point. clearly a lot more going on there, but very interesting to see how it all works together. cheers, roy. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- 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/