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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:00:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: ROLAND <roland_asmann AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: kbhit()
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, ROLAND wrote:

> --- Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> > Something is wrong with the rest of your code:
> > kbhit() _is_ the function 
> > you are looking for.  It returns immediately,
> > without waiting for a key 
> > to be pressed.
> 
> This is what my code looks like:
> 
> if(kbhit()==0){
>      if(getkey()==3){
>           interrupt();
>      }

That's backwards: if kbhit() returns zero, it means that no key was hit.  
So what this program does is _always_ call getkey() when no key was 
pressed, and getkey() waits for a keypress.