Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Some weird variant of getchar...
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.164038.23993@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2773@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 16:40:38 GMT

In article <2773@ux.acs.umn.edu> mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes:
>...Is there any portable call (i.e., one that can be expected to work
>on most computers, without hardware hacks) that will return *whether or not*
>you have hit a key, and return a meaningful value?

See the Frequently Asked Questions list.  (Hint:  the answer is "no".)
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