Hello ian, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 2:25:02 PM, you wrote: irg> I am trying to call link.exe on a lib, but it is in my cygwin path and i irg> cannot seem to find a good way to translate my cygwin path into a dos path so irg> ms's silly tools can understand it. irg> any hints? Yes! Use the cygpath.exe utility. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/