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- From: elliot@Wellspring.COM (Elliot H. Mednick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Keyboard input processing -- rolling one's own?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <715280941snx@Wellspring.COM>
- References: <BttsIw.4z1@NCoast.ORG>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 17:09:01 GMT
- Organization: Wellspring Solutions, Sutton, MA.
- Reply-To: elliot@Wellspring.COM
- Lines: 23
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- In article <BttsIw.4z1@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG writes:
- > In article <715029154snx@Wellspring.COM> elliot@Wellspring.COM writes:
- > >
- > > [...]
- > >
- > >Is this possible?
- >
- > No, it is not possible. The keyboard is unknown to ANSI C. (Don't post
- > disagreements until you've read the standard, please.) So there is in
- > principle no ANSI-standard way to do anything that requires the presence
- > of a keyboard.
- >
- > FWIW, Microsoft C has getch( ); I think most MS-DOS based compilers do.
- >
- > This topic (like so many) is well covered by the FAQ list in
- > comp.lang.c. Here's the relevant excerpt:
- >
- > [...]
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- Thanks for the info. Egg on my face for not checking the FAQ, first.
- I almost _always_ check the FAQ before I post. Almost always. Really.
-
- -Elliot
-