It seems the windows servers are going to proliferate here. (sigh) There are a number of you that are regularly using Cygwin on windows servers so as to have a decent scripting and cmd line environment. While I have used Cygwin casually on my own laptop for use with Oracle, I have never made serious use of it. If you have any tips to offer (ie. hard learned lessons) for using Cygwin it would be appreciated. If I learn enough I can consolidate it into a blog entry. Some examples of what I am looking for: How do you set up the PATH? (linux style or DOS style directories in PATH?) Any tricks to setting up the Oracle ENV variables? etc... Thanks, Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com