>> I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and > cygwin1.dll cannot be used together. If I compile the > attached (almost C) file that dynamically links to msvcrt.dll > using Cygwin: > gcc -o kbhit.exe kbhit.cpp > it compiles, links and works (on CMD and bash on CMD but not > on rxvt; as stated elsewhere in this thread the Microsoft > _kbhit is not very good). >> HTH, >> Arend-Jan Westhoff. The Gary Exclusion Principle: Two C runtimes cannot occupy the same point in space at the same moment in time. A corollary to that: "Worked" and "Works" are not the same thing. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/