There is a bug in Dec2001 Hugs (and earlier releases too) which causes
the Prelude function `interact' to behave unexpectedly - the user's
input is not echoed to the screen as she types it.  A patch is attached
which solves the problem.

Regards,
    Malcolm

--- src/iomonad.c       Tue Dec 11 00:54:51 2001
+++ src/iomonad.c.patched       Tue Dec 18 10:53:47 2001
@@ -844,6 +844,7 @@
     HandleArg(h,1);
     if (handles[h].hmode&HSEMICLOSED) {        /* read requires semi-closed handle*/
        Int c = (h==HSTDIN ? readTerminalChar() : getc(handles[h].hfp));
+       if (h==HSTDIN) putchar(c);
        if (c!=EOF && c>=0 && c<NUM_CHARS) {
            updapRoot(consChar(c),ap(nameHreader,primArg(1)));
            return;

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