hi, what do you do when fopen("/dev/tty", "r") doesn't work? i tried "ln -s /dev/conin /dev/tty" but /dev/conin (the output of 'tty') doesn't exist. thanks, raf - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".