Corinna! I would love to help you but I am not competent! What about my other question: how does one find the "short" name of file(s) and folder(s) in cygwin? Microsoft's command 'dir /x' does that, for example. Regards, Mariusz -- 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/