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From: kirste@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Burkhard Kirste)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getchar()
Message-ID: <5CTOV6E@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>
Date: 7 Mar 91 12:03:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.063644.8459@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar5.220902.19196@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar6.165835.10237@cs.mcgill.ca>
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>>	Your problem is that getchar() does not recognize ANY input until
>>you hit Enter.
>
>    Then is there ANY way that I can have sort of "HOT KEYS" ie the user
>just hits a  key, and then the computer recognizes that a key has been hit
>and the key is sent to some variable...?  (Using MSDOS...)
>
That's trivial in Turbo C (MSDOS):  i = getch();
It is much more complicated under UNIX, but possible.
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