Markus Schönhaber wrote: > I doubt that that's a matter of whether you use Cygwin or not but a matter > of whether you use the echo command from the GNU core utilities or not. On > your True64 unix, you propably don't. This statement isn't necessarily correct. I use bash and doing an echo <something> there won't call the executable from the coreutils but the bash builtin. But since both behave very similar wrt escape characters that doesn't matter too much, I guess. Regards mks -- 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/