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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: NOVICE question: How to know when a key is pressed
Keywords: key, keypress, c, novice
Message-ID: <1838@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 21:22:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.155200.12819@ericsson.se>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1991Apr11.155200.12819@ericsson.se> etxpihl@tore.ericsson.se (DEE Tomas Pihl) writes:
>I want to know how you can scan if a specific key has been pressed.
>Just as this program I'm using know know that i press eg. ESC.
>I don't want the pressed key to be echoed out to the screen as it is
>with getchar().

What you want is to be able to read individual key strokes without
echo.  There is no standard way to do it.  On unix/xenix systems
check the ioctl() calls in your manual.  On MSDOS you can perform
raw console I/O (again, check the manual).  Another newsgroup can
probably provide a better answer.

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