Hi I have the same experience with Windows XP and getContents, so I think it's the entire IO layer on Windows, rather than just getLine on Vista. This is being tracked here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2758 Thanks Neil

I've had the same experience with runghc in GHC 6.10.1 on Vista.

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Hi folks, I'm using System.IO.getLine to read input in my program. I've compiled it on Windows Vista with ghc-6.10.1. I've noticed that if I press Ctrl+C while the program is waiting for input, it will get stuck. No keypresses can get me out of the program - I have to kill

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I've tried cmd.exe, Powershell and cygwin - same behavior. I'm sure editline would work better, but it's overkill. I just want to read lines of text and don't need fancy edit behavior. And I think editline complicates the build process. I also want my

2008/11/12 Lyle Kopnicky : the shell. program to work

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right in non-interactive mode, reading redirected input. Am I missing something? Thanks, Lyle _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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