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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: FIORDCHK
Message-ID: <25B4CEF3.4C24@marob.masa.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 20:00:51 GMT
References: <4587@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <1027@khijol.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <1027@khijol.UUCP> erc@khijol.UUCP writes:
>In article <4587@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.UUCP writes:
>>	I'm trying to find a portable way to check for function
>>	key presses.
>Have you tried keypad() in conjunction with getch()?  If you are using curses,
>this is the best portable way to do what you want to do.

Keypad() is likely to be portable only amongst Xenix and SysV systems.
Most BSD-derived systems do not support keypad(), idlok(), etc.  Also,
some versions of Xenix include broken keypad() implementations (I recall
that certain standard ASCII keys returned null when pressed).

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