Ok fair comment. I have to admit that I considered adding a comment along the lines of "maybe we have a different concept of what POSIX implies" but I couldn't get the wording right. And it would seem that on a closer reading I am misunderstnading things. I'll strike that comment right after I post. I would actually say however that you have probably found the ideal resource for hacker's concerns about porting his unix stuff over. That link seems to detail the primary avenues for porting C code to win32, and a brief survey of the issues involved. Nice one. ++