Hi, If I use mingw's rxvt.exe shell, I can't see any prompt in psql. In a message to -patches (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2003-09/msg00019.php), Bruce said: The MinGW command console seems to have some problems with flushing output to the screen (no prompt, no errors display), but the same binary runs fine in CMD.EXE. We can look at that later. I don't know if this problem has been fixed! I am running Win2K. psql is running just fine from cmd.exe, and from the sh.exe run from within that!! Following are the sessions: