Thanks for the info Mark, I hadn't realised you could make a Windows binary that way. You are right that I did download Cygwin but I have yet to play with it - there have been a succession of problems here, including me not being able to sit at a PC (my back) and not being able to get online via my normal route (phone messed up). Hopefully things are settling down and we should even have ADSL broadband come 14th Jul so soon I'll start catching up on things I want to play with... and I have some folkinfo fixes/improvements to do... Also, in the middle of this, with luck my new 5 string bass will come - really looking forward to that - never owned a bass before but on the odd dabble have found I get started quite easily.