for windows we will have the user interface in tcl running under regular wish8.0 It will start up and then fork off a maxima, and will listen for a connection from it. It will send back its 'cygnus' pid. This can be used to invoke the 'cygnus kill.exe' on the maxima process... If the kill -INT from the shell is too slow, we can have a third little process waiting to do this job, with a socket open from wish