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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Number of chars in input queue - terminal, keyboard
Keywords: QUEUE TERM KEYBOARD ISC 1.0.6
Message-ID: <1990Jan10.094741.29881@twwells.com>
Date: 10 Jan 90 09:47:41 GMT
References: <1439@sas.UUCP>
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In article <1439@sas.UUCP> jwd@sas.UUCP (John W. DeBoskey) writes:
:    The subject almost says it all. I'm running ISC 1.0.6. I want to
: find out how many characters are available to read from the terminal
: if there are any. ie: avail = in_queue(term_id).

As far as I know, it can't be done without kernel hacking.

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