Greetings, scotty85! > so your basically saying i shouldnt use cmd? Unless you 100% know what you're doing, and familiar with both Unix and DOS shells to work around any issues - it's not recommended. > i use it all fine on my laptop, just on my home computer it comes up with > what i said so i dont no what to do to fix it.. Cygwin console is about as good for the same tasks, give it a try. And please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 11.06.2012, <18:03> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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