Unbuffered Reads

Is there any way to perform an unbuffered read in PHP when reading from STDIN? I.E. if I have the code --------------------- $chr = ""; while(!feof(STDIN)) { $chr = fgetc(STDIN); //I could just as easily do fread(STDIN, 1) if($chr == " ") break; } --------------------- and enter the following string (note this is how you would enter the string in a program to have it have the same value I'd type in): "this is a test\n" It will stop reading at the newline, and not the first space. Any ideas? System Info Environment: Windows XP Pro (used both the windows and cygwin command lines) PHP Version: 5.0.3 Thanks -Jim Stapleton