A recent posting led me to check the binmode-ness of /cygdrive. It appears that the cygdrive feature overrides the setting of CYGWIN (which I have set to binmode) ?? How can I force files on cygdrive to be read in binmode? -- John -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com