Hi Owen, You probably want to set the terminal into unbuffered mode. Google turned up... http://cboard.cprogramming.com/archive/index.php/t-27714.html Note: your question is not a GCC question, it's a general Unix question. Personally, for unbuffered interactive input at the terminal, I like to use ncurses 5.5 <http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/>. The ncurses library handles putting the tty into the correct mode, and restoring back to the regular mode when finished. If you find that your tty has gone all pear-shaped, here's the magic command to restore it to sanity: stty sane HTH, --Eljay
