Is there a way to check that a program / executable is available, without running it or using whereis or which? I have an Emacs function that depends on Cygwin netcat being installed, and I'd like to it to check. Thanks in advance, Tom SW -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug