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From: tmurphy%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: help need in C
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.214506.15523@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 03:45:06 GMT
References: <7339@munnari.oz.au>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept., Salt Lake City
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In article <7339@munnari.oz.au> ksiew@ecr.mu.oz.au (Kok-Hsien SIEW) writes:
>
> On Turbo Pascal 5.5 I could write the following code:
> 
>  repeat
>    do_calculations;
>  until keypressed;
>  inchar:=readkey;
>  writeln('The key you pressed is ',inchar);
> 

In Turbo C I would do it like this:
  
   #include <bios.h>
main()
{
 int key;
 
  while(bioskey(1) == 0){
    do_calculations
  }
  key = bioskey(0);
  printf("the key you pressed was %d \n" key);
}

pretty short and simple eh?

murph

tmurphy@peruvian.cs.utah.edu