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- From: mambuhl@ripco.com (Martin Ambuhl)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Unbuffered character
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 00:34:29 GMT
- Organization: Ripco Communications, Inc.
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- jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- in <DM2zCI.379@emr1.emr.ca writes:
- Lines: 34
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- In article <4ep3a1$bee@hacgate2.hac.com c llins@thor.tu.hac.com (Ron C
- rites:
- There is no portable way to get unbuffered input, since C can't
- possibly knew all about the dozens or hundreds of different
- terminal types available on all the machines made around the
- world.
-
- For best results (i.e., least evil alternative), check out the
- "curses" library available for your machine. Most common
- flavors can be had for free from any SimTel mirror.
-
- Does 'portability' or 'least evil' imply that everything that is
- not ANSI C be routed through a local version of a UNIX library?
-
- Mr. Grant is, I suppose, continuing his attack on "elitism" with this.
- Since he does not seem to know, and others may not either, there are a
- number of DOS version of curses available. It is not ANSI C, and is
- often not the best choice for any particular platform. It is, however,
- widely available on almost all platforms and performs adequately for
- most tasks. It is a 'least evil' because it is the closest we have to a
- portable solution.
-
- He also does not seem to realize - perhaps through his M$BrokenOS
- elitism - that unicisms are frequently flamed here and that there are
- >16k newsgroups; there is no need for M$dog to imperialistically take
- over them all. The comp.os.msdos.* heirarchy provides places for
- questions from that narrow world to be answered by people who are likely
- to know the appropriate answers.
-
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