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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  2. Path: cwi.nl!dik
  3. From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
  4. Subject: Re: Unbuffered character input...
  5. Message-ID: <DM68Gx.7rp@cwi.nl>
  6. Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: chrysant.cwi.nl
  8. Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
  9. References: <DM2zCI.379@emr1.emr.ca> <9602011208.AA06949@dxmint.cern.ch> <4etiup$fig@airdmhor.gen.nz>
  10. Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 23:12:33 GMT
  11.  
  12. In article <4etiup$fig@airdmhor.gen.nz> gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie) writes:
  13.  >   What is the advantage of line buffering user input, anyway?
  14.  
  15. Ah, well that enables C programming on some machines/OS's that can not
  16. handle non-line-buffered user input.
  17. -- 
  18. dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098
  19. home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/
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