Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!john
From: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice soft key question...
Message-ID: <9166@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Aug 89 18:44:11 GMT
References: <11086@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <11086@polya.Stanford.EDU> wolfe@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Michael R. Wolfe) writes:
>  I'm trying to write an application using soft keys on a Unix machine
>Getchar and getc are buffered, so I've been trying to set the terminal
>to raw mode the only way I've gotten it to work at all is through 
>Curses, which I don't really need.  How have others solved this
>problem?  (I'm sure that it's pretty basic).

Easiest is just to put a newline at the end of each function key string 
but that makes it pretty terminal specific.  

Then, there is MINICURSES, which is a subset of curses and doesn't add that
much to your executable.  It is much too much of a hassle to go to raw mode
and not have terminal strings interpeted for you.  Really!  You'd have to
all the processing for backspaces, interrupts, etc.


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