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> Does it stop waiting if you press [Enter] right after the first key?
Only if the first key is EOF, which I don't think (I'm certainly noone to be
commenting on the standard) is the way it's supposed to work.  I thought
that it should be any key, followed of course by '\n'.

> If so, what you see is the normal, so-called ``cooked'' operation of
> a terminal: the read operation doesn't return until you press Enter.
> That's because by default, the terminal device is in line-input
> mode.  I believe this is so on Unix as well.
Right.  I understand that.  It's just that it doesn't stop waiting until I
press EOF and then '\n'.  Is this how it's supposed to be?  No other
compiler does this (which doesn't really say much).
> To get a single-key input, you need to use the termios functions to
> switch the terminal into raw mode.  The library reference has the
> details.
Right.  An example would be getch() in conio.h, right?  I understand that (I
think).  I'm just referring to this prob w/ it waiting until I press EOF and
then '\n', rather than any combination of keys and then '\n'.

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