I used to use COM ports on windows all the time and now I installed Cygwin on another machine and the capability has been totally lost. I've recompiled tcl from the cygwin src package to no avail. I haven't starting digging yet --- unfortunately my last post went unanswered. So I'm trying again. Any thoughts? -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. ============================================================================= Email: bkamen AT benjammin DOT net Web: http://www.benjammin.net As seen somewhere on the net: My other computer is your Windows Server. -- 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/