I'm Japanese. stat("\221觸202R\217ヘ\215\\\221「\221フ\202フ\212砡221b/..", &stat_); is failed in cygwin. please correct it. Many Japanese people dislike cygwin because cygwin can't use Japanese encode(Shitf-JIS) file name properly. -- Daisuke Minato minato.daisuke@gmail.com