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Subject: Re: _kbhit
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:10:25 -0500
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From: "Michiel De Hoon" <mdehoon AT c2b2 DOT columbia DOT edu>
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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > First, some Cygwin programs will need _kbhit to be 
> > able to interact with the Windows OS.
> 
> That's simply not true.  They may *want* it so that they can interact with
> cmd.exe, in which case they're not a "Cygwin program".

If:
1) A program needs to run a Windows message loop;
2) This message loop should be exited when user input is available on stdin;
3) The program needs to link to cygwin1.dll;
then it is a Cygwin program that needs _kbhit (either present in the DLL or
implemented by myself using select()), isn't it?

--Michiel.

Michiel de Hoon
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Columbia University
1150 St Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032


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