* An ongoing debate between Maurice Kinal and Ben Ritchey rages on ...   
      
    MK> through to each other.  You might wish the same from me and I am   
    MK> ready, willing and able.   
      
   Ok, will keep that in mind ;-)   
      
    MK> Try these commands from a terminal prompt and see what it shows;   
      
   For CygWin v1.7 it shows gcc 3.4.4, perl 5.10.1, bash 4.1.10   
      
    MK> play with pktinfo and txt2pkt in bash scripts (both are from hpt/lnx   
    MK> 1.9.0-cur) which requires;   
      
   Hmmm...have to check those out, thanks   
      
    MK> How adventerous do you feel you are up to at this point in time?   
      
   Time can be limited, but scope is not, fire away {chuckle}   
      
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