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From: NCLARKE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Single character reading in VAX Pascal
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Date: 17 Mar 88 19:54:30 GMT
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Unfortunately VAX Pascal has what they call "lazy look ahead" and there is
no way within it to pull a character from the keyboard without hitting
return.  The only think to do is create an external function (in assembly
most likely) that does this for you.

Neil Clarke
Drew University
nclarke@drew.bitnet