I'm running cygwin-1.7.0-56 and I've no problem with xterm. After the first ls, I can enter other commands too. I don;t use emacs. But I can start emacs and xemacs and get into editing the file. Both xterm and emacs do not come back with a prompt. Eric. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple