copy() broken

Hello, I have a sneeking suspicion that this is not directly php4's problem but cygwin's problem. Because I needed a module version of php4 on my win95 box I recently compiled the cygwin version of Apache and PHP4b2 avaliable here: http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Everthing went great and compiled without a hitch. But I noticed that I was experiencing file copy() problems with my existing scripts. What I found out is that the file is being copied but it is being tructuated to 486 bytes from whatever the original size is. I then tryed, as a workaround, to use cygwin's "cp" command from within php and that takes Apache down alltogether. I further discovered that it is not possible to fork any shell process from within php such as with popen() or system() etc which I think is a because... From the cygwin readme: " A remaining problem on Windows 95 is that httpd isn't able to fork() child processes cleanly. That's why you have to set the -X switch when invoking httpd on those platforms" So I guess my question is ... does copy() fork an external process? and if not, what approach would you recomend I take to fix this with my existing platform. Thanks very much in advance. Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com