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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!hamp.hampshire.edu!jmolinari
  3. From: jmolinari@hamp.hampshire.edu
  4. Subject: real-time character input
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.112134.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
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  7. Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: hamp.hampshire.edu
  9. Organization: Hampshire College
  10. Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:21:34 GMT
  11.  
  12.     I'm writing a C program that requires real-time character input (i.e.,
  13. character-by-character, as opposed to line-by-line).  Let's say, for the sake
  14. of argument, that I want to be able to move a cursor on the screen using the
  15. cursor keys.  How can I do this?  I'm already familiar with vt100 escape codes,
  16. so you can skip that part.  Parting from that, I asked around and I got a
  17. rather vague answer:  "That is system specific."  How true is this?  If you
  18. decide to take the task of explaining this to me, please pretend I know
  19. nothing, which isn't too far from the truth... :-)
  20.  
  21.                      jmolinari@hamp.hampshire.edu
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