yuan_jh,hello! You may have a look at: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2005-03/msg00145.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00679.html http://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2004-q4/msg00076.html ^_^ Regards twomol twomol@bj1860.net 2005-03-21