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Subject: Re: How to avoid kbhit() and getkey() ?
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Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 15:09:48 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 10:14:15 GMT
> >
> > IMNSHO the portable way is to create your own function
> >
> >   int chready(FILE *f);
> >
> > which returns 0 unless it knows that fgetc(f) will return
> > immediately.
> 
> I think the question was how to implement such a function so that it
> will work both in DJGPP and on Posix platforms.

So why did you snip my next sentence, which was:

> immediately.  You have given a couple of methods of implementing
> chready.  Once you have this all the rest is under control,
> although you may have to eschew some standard library calls to
> avoid getting hung up awaiting user input.

and it pointed out that this had a wider market than just
DJGPP/Posix.

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