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From: HONGHE@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Hong He)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Getting a single keystroke
Message-ID: <10383@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:36:26 GMT
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In article <1990Jan1.194328.24966@cs.dal.ca>, silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:

>In article <#!G4|_@rpi.edu> jefu@pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam) writes:
>>
>>Now I need a simple answer (I hope the answer will not be as simple as "no"),
>>Is it possible to have MS Fortran detect a single (non <cr>) keypress, and
>>return a single character?   Ideally I would like a couple functions, say
>>kbdhit() and getsinglechar().
>
>I cannot find a way to do this in MS or Lahey Fortran, but I have
>assembler code that does the job.

The Spindrift Library, available in MS and Lahey versions, has the
functions you need, as well as other keyboard and screen manipulation
functions. The address is :
      Spindrift Laboratories
      116 S. Harvard Ave.
      Arlington Heights, IL 60005

        (312) 255-6909
I've used the library mostly in its Lahey version, and mostly for
its keyboard functions.  Hope this helps.

Barbara Vaughan
BVAUGHAN@PUCC.princeton.edu