I was having this exact same issue on windows ME. I had to go back to 5.20.0.0 with apiversion 155 to get things working again. -- 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/