home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: gail.ripco.com!mambuhl
- From: mambuhl@ripco.com (Martin Ambuhl)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Checking For Keyboard
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 23:30:52 GMT
- Organization: Ripco Communications, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4h2ojc$krq@gail.ripco.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: foley.ripco.com
-
- broldham@altheim.win-uk.net (Brian R. Oldham) in
- <1176@altheim.win-uk.net> demonstrated that he is completely clueless
- (clewless?) by writing:
-
- >In article <4gqm3pINNkbu@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.
- >s.ubc.ca) writes:
- [snip]
- >>This question comes up not fewer than 10 times a week in this newsgroup, yet i
- >>has nothing to do with the C language. It is more than adequatly covered in th
- >>FAQ, as you would know if you had read it.
-
- >If you had not been so preoccupied with your annoyance at aLEX's
- >greeting you might have answered his query - or ignored it....
-
- He answered the question as is appropriate for c.l.c: `It is more than
- adequately covered in the FAQ.' Anyone who does not recognize this as
- the correct answer should go back and read the newusers info his ISP
- should have provided. If your ISP did not provide this info, you should
- complain to them, not to us.
-
- >.... A simple
- >brief mention of kbhit() or equivalent, or a call to whatever interrupt
- >pauses the keyboard would have been helpful,...
-
- In other words, a simple mention of every possible non-C answer should
- have been the answer in comp.lang.c. Get real.
-
- >... but you may be assured,
- >none of us appreciate supercilious resposes such as this. Are you going
- >to post this crap *every* time a newbie asks a question?
-
- Your response is the inappropriate one.
-
- The right answer to a newbie who asks a question answered in the FAQ is
- to encourage him to look there. Such a question shows a complete
- disregard for USENET/NEWSNET practices and is the rude component of the
- exchange.
-
- The right answer to a newbie who asks a question inappropriate to the
- newsgroup is to ignore it or to let him know that this is not the place
- to ask. Such a question shows a complete disregard for USENET/NEWSNET
- practices and is the rude component of the exchange.
-
- People who insist on breaking down the boundaries between newsgroups or
- who can't be bothered reading the FAQ are extremely impolite. Don't
- encourage them.
-
- --
- * Martin Ambuhl net: mambuhl@ripco.com
- * Chicago, IL (USA)
-