Hi, I'm trying to read data from a usb device that emulates as a keyboard (its a magnetic card reader). Do you know how I should get going. here are some question that i have... 1) As the process would be working in the background how do i make sure that the input that this usb emulated keyboard is inputting to this process. usually you have the terminal selected and just read from stdin. fundu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html