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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn=20Giesler?= <giesler AT ira DOT uka DOT de>
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Subject: Console input in xterm from NT program?
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:54:25 +0100
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Hi,

I've written a small command-line class (editing, history, command completion 
etc.). That requires cursor positioning and reading of single characters. It 
works quite well under Linux (with tcsetattr() and escape sequences) and in 
NT console windows (using the WinNT console API from wincon.h). The program 
gets compiled with GCC under Linux and with VC++ under Windows.

The problem is that the NT console API doesn't work in Cygwin xterm windows at 
all (probably because I'd have to switch them to non-line-buffered mode), but 
I don't have access to tcsetattr() since VC++ doesn't have that. The result 
is that I don't get any input at all on the NT/Cygwin-xterm combination. But 
I'd like the command line to work in all three contextes.

Can anybody tell me what I'm missing here, or is there any magical control 
sequence that I could send the xterm that toggles line-buffered mode?

Thanks in advance,
		--Björn
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