Hi, Have you looked at the new Cygwin 1.7 test release? It's supposed to have a newer gcc, 4.3.2 and offer more Windows API functionality. It will not run on anything less than Windows 2000. I'm not running it here and I don't know much more about it. It's still in testing, but it might work. Get setup-1.7.exe or setup1.7.exe instead of the usual setup.exe from cygwin.com. I don't use JAWS but I would be interested if you get something like this to work. Shane W wrote: > The problem I ran into was though I am a compitent C > programmer on *nix systems, Windows is another matter > entirely. I looked at doing it with Cygwin, I really like > that platform but last I checked, opening /dev/ttyS0 didn't > result in getting a serial port and I couldn't figure out > how to Talk to Jaws via cygwin, IE. does Jaws have a C API? > Could do it with SAPI but then you lose eloquence. >