Thanks a lot. But I'm sorry - I've never dealt with the Win32 API. Don't you have to join Micro$haft in order to access the MSDN site? H. -- 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/