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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Reading keys from the keyboard
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 00:07:40 GMT
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- In article <0l2HH=G00YUw8HYNZY@andrew.cmu.edu>
- jlaf+@andrew.cmu.edu "Jeff K Landauer" writes:
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- >I'm trying to get rid of the delay after the first key is pressed and
- >held down, so I can get a steady stream of input into my c program.
- >Does anyone know how to do this? Someone told me there was an interrupt
- >that would somehow solve this problem, but I don't know it. Any help
- >would be greatly appreciated.
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- The C language has no keyboard support therefore to solve this you need to
- use facilities provided by your particular system. You don't specify what
- that is but 'interrupt' sounds like a DOSism so try comp.os.msdos.programmer.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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