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From: lucio@proxima.UUCP (Lucio de Re)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help wanted: unbuffered stdin??
Message-ID: <1275@proxima.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 90 12:46:26 GMT
References: <426@sheoak.bcae.oz>
Reply-To: lucio@proxima.UUCP (Lucio de Re)
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In article <426@sheoak.bcae.oz> 732113@sheoak.bcae.oz (732113) writes:
>How can single characters be read from standard input without having to
>wait for a newline?
> 
>I'm trying to write an improved editor, and I can't even start without
>this information.

You deserve flaming for this! There are as many answers as there are
"C" libraries, how is anyone to tell which answer you want? I'll mail
you a solution if you let me know which of Unix or MSDOS you want the
answer for (I can't vouch for other operating systems) as I am too
lazy to cater for both worlds (and I also don't really like too many
#ifdef's).

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I used to design nuclear reactors and you should see the code that
engineers and scientists come up with. Yuuuck! Spaghetti everywhere.
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Lucio de Re                        ...uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!proxima!lucio
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                Disclaimer: He must have been joking!