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From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, CFC User)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Using C++ Streams
Keywords: portable compilers preprocessors
Message-ID: <4515@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:17:53 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.181823.9414@falcon.no> <284@nazgul.UUCP> <13731@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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In <13731@helios.TAMU.EDU> jadam@cs.tamu.edu (James P Adam) writes:


>   I'm working on a DOS machine, and I'm trying to use the C++ streams
>library of stuff to read control-characters from the keyboard.  What I'd
>like to be able to do, for instance, is to ask for some input (an
>integer, say) and be able to abort the request if the first character
>hit is the ESCAPE key.
>   The problem is that characters like ESCAPE, CTRL-S, CTRL-P, CTRL-Z,
>etc., never get through to my program if I use cin.  
>    What I used to do, back in plain C, was to use machine-specific 

I've used streams mostly for file IO, not keyboard.  But I know if I have
to do binary IO I need to use the read() and write() methods.  You may
want to try these, or the get() and put() methods.  It works for me!

- jim ruehlin