Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 11:45:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Escape Sequences / Reading from Console 
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On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Noam Rotem wrote:

> 2. Is there any portable function or asm code for reading one 
> single character from the console? (with DOS, I can use BIOS 
> interrupt 16h, but with unix I can't, as far as I understand 
> it). 

What's wrong with `getc'?  It can read single characters as well, if
you switch stdin to binary mode (use `setmode') and make it unbuffered
(use `setvbuf').  Did you try it?