Andy Dougherty wrote: > What is 'msys' ? That might explain the '.exe' suffix. msys is the Minimal System for MinGW: http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml I haven't had that much luck with it; CygWin is better maintained. It does have the ability to create native Win32 apps that don't have dependencies on other libraries. YMMV HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748