In article <1990Oct9.042831.20159 at icc.com> cbp at icc.com (Chris Preston) writes: > read ans < /dev/tty #my personal version of gets > #it's in the fine manual even :-) Unfortunately I've seen shells where it does not work :-( (How many BD things are floating around!) Vadim Antonov DEMOS, Moscow, USSR (It is a joke!)