On the 'resources' area of the rsync website, I found a link to a quick howto on using rsync with cygnus. After a quick look over it, I found something that might be useful -- the doc says to create a special batchfile for rsync, to pass it the correct environment. In fact, I see no conflict between cygnus' environment and a standard windows environment. I didn't know where to send this but here, but the simplest solution is to go to Start => Run (under Windows), type 'msconfig' in the dialog box, and edit the autoexec.bat shown there. Or, of course, you could use Win32 builds of Vim or Emacs to edit the real file ;-) Will someone please send this to wherever it needs to go to update that doc? Or at least tell me where to send it. ____________________________________________________________ woof! woof! I'm @dog.com Get your free @dog e-mail at http://www.dog.com