diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3db7cd091..78c6f70d4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2011-07-09  Holger Vogt
+ * input.c: definition of _read only for Windows console
+ 
 2011-07-09  Robert Larice
  * src/frontend/gens.c ,
  * src/frontend/subckt.c ,
diff --git a/src/frontend/parser/input.c b/src/frontend/parser/input.c
index a8d289eb6..3aa72d82e 100644
--- a/src/frontend/parser/input.c
+++ b/src/frontend/parser/input.c
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ $Id$
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 #include "BaseTsd.h" /* for SSIZE_T */
 #define ssize_t SSIZE_T
-#define read _read
+#ifndef HAS_WINDOWS  
+#define read _read /* only for console */
+#endif
 #endif
 
 /* A special 'getc' so that we can deal with ^D properly. There is no way for