Hallo Eric,Mike, Alexandre (and alll others), as described in http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/01/0486.html Altera quartus waits for some connected application by detecting a broken pipe (ReadFile() expects error, GetLastError is checked for ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE). Our present pipe implementation doesn't set this error beside for PeekNamedPipe. The application doesn't call PeekNamedPipe(). I sent some additional test for pipe to wine-patches. The last test with its todo_wine points out this behaviour. Confirmation of my findings by running the test on windows is appreciated. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------