Hello nhc-team, The following doesn't work under nhc98 1.14 (made with hmake 3.05) [afc@pcburum mipsmanual]$ nhc98 --version /usr/local/funcprog/bin/nhc98: v1.14 (2002-06-13) [ config: ix86-Linux/ghc by malcolm@pc173 on 13 Jun 2002 ] The program does nothing, and returns immediately without waiting for input. Just using getContents does the same. -------------------------- module Main where import IO parse accum [] = [accum] parse accum ('*':cs) = accum:parse [] cs -- finished this expression parse accum ('%':cs) = [accum] -- end input here parse accum (c:cs) = parse (c:accum) cs main = do text <- hGetContents stdin putStr (unlines (parse [] text)) -------------------------- Amanda