just noted that
$ svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/octave/code/trunk/octave-forge/ octave-code
segfaults with snapshot and works fine with 1.7.17, so I guess it is snapshot problem Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple