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From: reagan@hiyall.enet.dec.com (John R. Reagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: I/O with VAX Pascal
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Date: 4 Jun 90 16:32:42 GMT
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In article <38995.26678cba@eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au>, djung@eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au writes...
>Question:
> 
>  Does anyone know the best way (I don't know any way) to do character by
>character I/O using VAX Pascal?
>  I wish to write some interactive code - reading arrow keys etc -
>but VMS buffers I/O, so I don't get any input until the user hits return.
> 
>Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
> 

You do character I/O, you can either call $QIOW directly or use
the screen package (SMG$READ_KEYSTROKE).

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John Reagan
Digital Equipment Corporation
reagan@hiyall.dec.com
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