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From: jrwsnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Jonathan R. Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Readkey without "use crt" (Was Re: Strobing the keyboard)
Keywords: keyboard strobe strobing
Message-ID: <3501@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 03:25:31 GMT
References: <1261@rodan.acs.syr.edu: <79164@linus.UUCP> <6233@pitt.UUCP>
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Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <6233@pitt.UUCP>, yubing@vax.cs.pitt.edu (Bing Yu) writes:
> I have a problem similar to this: I want to have a function same as
> Readkey but do NOT want to "use crt".  The reason for this is that
> I want to force the crt i/o go through dos so that it can be handled
> by a driver similar to ansi.sys.  I tried read(input,c) but have to
> press RETURN after the key is pressed.  Does anyone know how to make it
> work?  Thanks.

It is possible to "use crt" and still have the output go through DOS.  I don't
remember the exact procedure (something like re-opening input and output),
but it is in the manual somewhere!

  - Jonathan Watts

jrwsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu