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Nick J Chackowsky <nick AT arcticmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:37252A95 DOT 5894 AT arcticmail DOT com...
> I have Stroustrup v.3, can't find the two-line reference. Can you post
> it or give me a chapter/page? Thanks.

It is on page 647, and makes use of in_avail().   It is mentioned in
passing, and I think it needs a little more work to actual function like
getch(). To further complicate matters, I have the 5th printing, and I think
the rdbuf().in_avail() needs to be rdbuf()->in_avail().