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From: gill@boris.mscs.mu.edu (Vijay (Ender) Gill)
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Subject: Re: Keypressed function?
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Date: 27 Feb 91 23:21:22 GMT
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In article <27CB871A.2433@ics.uci.edu> djpadz@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (David Jay Padzensky) writes:

[---in turbo pascal there is ---]

>	Function KeyPressed: Boolean;
>
>All it does is return true or false based on whether or not a key is
>waiting in the input buffer.  Is there a (DYNIX) C or Pascal function
[--delted---]

>Dj Padzensky

The FAQ list has this question [7 I think].  However, reading
Marc J. Rochkind's book, "Advanced Unix Programming" will help,
in particular he gives the code for a `cready' function that
tells whether is a char is waiting, and `cget' to get it.
    That is an excellent book for programming in Unix, and is 
well worth the money spent.

cheers
-dicky gill (Violator)
-gill@boris.mscs.mu.edu