From:	nealk AT net66 DOT com ("Neal Krawetz")
Subject:	Read from keyboard?
31 Aug 1997 16:25:56 -0700 :
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Hello,

I have a text-based application that has been successfully ported to OS/2,
SunOS, Linux, IRIX, and HP-UX.  (The only difference is the non-blocking
read from a keyboard function.)  I'd like to port it to Win95.

I have tried GCC and an older version of Cygnus-GCC, but both seem to be
unable to perform a non-blocking read from a text-based application.

I'm basically looking for "int getch(stdin)" where it returns the
character in the read buffer, or -1 if no character is available.

Under GCC for OS/2, the function _read_kbd(0,0,0) does exactly what I
want.  Under Unix, we use curses to set stdin to non-blocking.

Is a possible to make a text-based application with non-blocking read from
stdin using the current Cygnus GCC compiler?  If so, how?

(I wrote about 6 months ago with the same question and was told that it
currently cannot be done, but may be possible in the future.)

						-Neal


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