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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 00:13:40 +0000
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: keyboard problem!
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> Actually, he's right: the effect of that code is to read one character from
> DOS standard input. This may be a problem, since on other compilers (at
> least Turbo C) `getch' reads directly from the keyboard. Ideas, anyone?

Oops, never mind.  You're right.  getch() is even documented as doing so
in libc.inf.  I was under the (mistaken) impression that getch()
bypassed DOS file streams.  I suppose getkey() (q.v.) would be the
correct function to use in such cases.

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