>How about: > stty -icanon min 1 time 0 Maybe S5/386 is different, but the S5R3.1 3B2 code won't handle that - it'll set VMIN to octal 61, i.e. '1', and VTIME to octal 60, i.e. '0' - and the S5R3.2-for-the-3B2 documentation says it'll do what the S5R3.1 code does. The SunOS 4.x "stty" will handle it, but that's because I changed it *to* handle it....