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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:13:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Console input in xterm from NT program?
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:52:45PM +0100, Bj?rn Giesler wrote:
>since nobody has answered me yet, and I haven't been able to fix the problem 
>so far, I'll repost it in a slightly different way:
>
>I'm looking for a way to get one-char-at-a-time stdin input in an xterm, using 
>only the Win32 APIs (e.g. from wincon.h). It works in the XP console, but in 
>XFree86/xterm my program doesn't get any input at all, and all input I type 
>stays in the buffer and goes to the shell when I kill my program with Ctrl-C.
>
>Can anybody tell me how to get xterm to talk to me?

xterm is a pure UNIX-like environment.  You can't use Windows APIs to control
it.  You need to use tcsetattr.

cgf
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