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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
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Date: 31 Aug 89 15:12:00 GMT
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In article <3802@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> No.  The real biggie is editors.
> What I want to know is, how does EDT work, if VMS can't handle
> character-at-a-time devices.

VMS can do input and output any way one wishes. It is just that by 
default everything goes through the "record manager". Single character,
disk block or group of blocks (independent of the record structure),
even absolute disk blocks, are all possible. They are just a
programming nuisance, and some (absolute disk blocks e.g.) require
priviledge.

Even arcade games a possible on a (lightly loaded) VAX.

Doug McDonald