This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex pdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or (2) it should be arranged for "etex" in invoke pdfetex instead of etex. E.g., make "etex" a link to pdfetex, instead of its own binary. We do (2) for TeX Live. I suspect you could also work around this Cygwin configuration bug by setting TEX=tex before running texi2dvi. HTH, karl -- 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/