Hi, This is totally non-SER related, but i thought that someone would know ... so many good developers here :) You can reply off-list if you prefer. I need to implement a small program which i want to compile under Linux (*nix in general) and windows. It needs to read from the standard input, one char at a time, and I want to use select() so it does not get stuck in the read() operation. Is select working in windows? and read()? Actually, for windows platforms i do a _getch() (just need to absorb the keypress). Thks! Cesc