Hello, Now, I'm changing my desktop from XP , to Vista (I can test on both during the migration process) My script appears tu run once in a msDos Windows, then stops abruptly any second time, with this message: 19 [main] ? (5312) D:\open\gnu_utils\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 0, base 0x640000, top 0x6B0000, reserve_size 454656, allocsize 458752, page_const 4096 14 [main] sh 5296 child_copy: stack write copy failed, 0x22CBB0..0x230000,done 0, windows pid 2280164, Win32 error 5 /cygdrive/d/open/wpkg/wa.sh: fork: No error I am runing an old version of bash 3.00 ( The latest 3..2.49 has an other issue , I related in an other post: "1/ new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49" Christian |