Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:40:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Blasczyk <byk AT eikon DOT tum DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Redirectable Keyboardinput
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On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Martin Blasczyk wrote:

> if (kbhit()!=0) c=getkey();
> 
> It works, but it isn't redirectable. If I for example do a 'ctty com1' the
> routine wants the key to be pressed on the keyboard, not on the terminal
> conected to com1. Could You give me a hint?

Use the library function `select', it works with handles and so supports 
redirection.  (It is also more portable to Unix machines, while kbhit is 
DOS-specific.)