Mitchell, Neil wrote: > 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 Which is now fixed, FYI. 6.10.2 will have the fix. Cheers, Simon