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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: Unbuffered character input...
- Date: 01 Feb 1996 16:02:11 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca's message of Thu, 1 Feb 1996 05:02:41 GMT
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- In article <DM2zCI.379@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- writes:
- <snip>
- >For best results (i.e., least evil alternative), check out the "curses"
- >library available for your machine. Most common flavors can be had for
- >free from any SimTel mirror.
- Does 'portability' or 'least evil' imply that everything that is
- not ANSI C be routed through a local version of a UNIX library?
-
- No, portability imlies use of an interface that has been implemented
- on a large number of common platforms.
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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