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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  How to do non-blocking keyboard input
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Date: 14 Jun 90 18:00:36 GMT
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In article <9006140143.aa19050@WOLF.BRL.MIL>, mike@BRL.MIL (Mike Muuss) writes:
|> The best way to do it is to use the select() system call.
|> 
|> Here is a portable subroutine that will show you how to do it.
|> 	Best,
|> 	 -Mike
|> 
|> -------
|> /*
|>  *			B S D S E L E C T
|>  *
|>  *  Ordinarily, a stub for select() could have been implemented here,
|>  *  but the IRIS defines a graphics library routine select().
|>  *  On non-BSD systems, select() is a name likely to have been reused,

The GL routine "select" was renamed gselect in release 3.0 more than 2 years
ago.

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"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."