Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
Message-ID: <2673@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Jan 89 20:42:54 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <225800106@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <225800106@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> >From my recollection of BASIC, INKEY$ has two main uses:
> /*   (long discussion deleted)   */

> The important point is that some such function should be a
> STANDARD C (ANSI C) function, ...

You obviously didn't pay attention to me. I just got through saying that
INKEY$ is an extremely infeccient and CPU-intensive way of operating under
an operating system like UNIX. It should certainly not be made part of
'C', just because of this little inconvenient fact. Any time you want to
do INKEY$, stop and ask yourself what you're really doing. You may very
well find that there are better tools... available and portable. Look up
signal(), and meditate on multitasking.

> ... not an operating system dependent
> kludge.

INKEY is an operating-system dependent kludge.
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