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>      What is the best command to wait for a keypress from the user?
> I'd like to do it in the same style as LhA does, ie. user would not
> have to press return after pressing the desired key. WaitForChar()
> came first into my mind, but it requires enter to be pressed after
> the actual key. Thanks in advance,
>                      Ilkka Anttonen ([e-mail])
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You can do it the dirty way, by making a busy-wait loop...

Brian
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Well, folks, the changeover to making amigae an listserv
mailing list, while fraught with pitfalls seems to be up
and running.

Several of you may have noticed all sorts of bizarre
things coming from the list, especially problems with
headers and return paths. These have been fixed now and,
finally, appear to be processing list mail with all the
headers in their proper places. (And all it cost me in
the process was one disk crash/reformat/restore!)

There was another problem from a user at a FIDO gatewayed
site that resulted in dozens of "undeliverable mail"
messages over the last three or four days. For anyone who
was troubled by these, I apologize. The problem was that
the FIDO site deemed the user unknown, and then proceeded
to mail the error message to the address in the "reply-to"
field (instead of the From or Path fields, as it should
have). This, now that the reply-to field points to
[e-mail] was broadcasting dozens of error
messages to the list at large. What a mess.

Anyway, if any of you have trouble with the list, please
let me know.

Finally, I have noticed some discussion lately about how
slow the list traffic has been ("is this list alive?") and
such. The answer is that yes, the list is very much alive,
and yes the list has been painfully slow for nearly two
months. I trust that by upgrading the list software and
beaming out a list announcement to the USENET newsgroup
comp.sys.amiga.programmer that we can perk things up
around here a bit. For the months of November and December,
messages requesting subscriptions/unsubscriptions have
been outnumbering list traffic five to one.

I hope you all had a good New Year's, and I have great
hopes for the growth of this list in 1994, both in terms of
membership and usefulness to Amiga E programmers.

Thanks for everyone's patience.

Norm.


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Subject: Newbie Question


Hi All,

  Maybe some of you out there can help a newbie in learning
how to program in E. I've had Amiga E for some time now but,
havn't really done anything with it. I've messed around with
the examples and such but that's about as far as it's gone.
I have also opened a window and output some simple sentences
and the like to it.

  Now for my problem. Maybe I'm looking at this wrong or looking
to deep, but for some reason I can't seem to get how you define
and use variables. I've read through the manuals, and maybe I'm
overlooking the obvious, but I just don't seem to comprehend what's
going on.

  In basic I would just do this:

        a$ = "apples"
        b$ = "There are"
        print b$+"5"+a$

  This would print on the screen;

               "There are 5 apples"


  How would I do something similar in E. I think if I could just
get this one thing down, the rest would fall into place. For some
reason this one simple thing seems to elude me.

thanks in advance

jessie
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