Mark Mitchell wrote: > As a test case, I'd recommend the latest code I posted. If a MinGW > application tries to open CONOUT$ with CreateFile, it gets > INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, so the OS doesn't seem to think the console is > available.
I should have said "in a Cygwin xterm" somewhere in that sentence; it can of course open CONOUT$ from a console window. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713