Larry, after deleting my cygwin directory and reinstalling, I am able to execute the sample program below correctly. Thanks for your time spent on this! For me... onward! Brian -- 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/