On May 13 18:36, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > you can also use the POSIX function >> Hmm.. It is listed as BSDism, wherever I looked.. s/POSIX/UNIX/ Anyway, I was using "POSIX" in place of "not Windows". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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