hi, can i directly call Windows APIs ( such as creating a window, reading from a file ) from a cygwin program written in C ? if the answer is yes, i want to know how i should do that, thanks! -- woody then sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. -- 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/