From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Re[2]: console mode and \r, \n, etc.
5 Dec 1998 06:01:44 -0800
Message-ID: <01BE202A.8F53C660.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Paul Sokoilovsky'" <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>     Yes, but it has problems too, even bugs. For example, if you care
> about it, win95 has problems with localization features when using
> ReadConsoleInput() - it just bypass keyboard localizer (which is dos
> program at all). Here's how it worked around:
>
> int rl_getch()
> {
>   int key=0; int mask=0;
>
>   if (pending_flag) { pending_flag=0; return pending_key; }
>
>   for (;;)
>   {
>     WaitForSingleObject(STDIN,INFINITE);
>     if (!PeekConsoleInput(STDIN,&ir,1,&dummy))            goto FromFile;

Your code example is based on console read code originally written by me 
and Boris Usievich, and is incompatible with windows NT (some keys like 
ESC, shift-tab etc are handled incorrectly). I have a working code for both 
NT and 95 and will be ready to implement it in cygwin after console code 
reorganization (Chris, is the work in progress?).

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ