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Subject: Re: Function kbhit()?
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> From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 03:42:09 -0400
> 
> *Maybe* it's because when !kbhit(), you don't call getch() but you do 
> store a value into *key.

I think this does not happen because if `kbhit' returns zero, there's
no keypress in the BIOS queue, and `bioskey' then gets stuck until a
key is pressed, at which time it returns that key.  So I think what
you describe could only happen in the (extremely rare) case where a
key is pressed between the time the BIOS call in `kbhit' returns and
the time `bioskey' is called.