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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hitkb exists?
Message-ID: <8349@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 23:44:50 GMT
References: <RON.90Feb4114158@clarity.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <RON.90Feb4114158@clarity.Princeton.EDU> ron@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Ronald Beekelaar) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I left out some needed information in my question last night.
>I was wondering whether I can silently test whether a key has been pressed in
>C, without having to read(..). I forgot to tell that I am using MS-C on an
>IBM-PC. 
>


Yes.  You should read the section in your MSC manual about the routine
named "_bios_keybrd()". If you find that not to your liking, try "kbhit()"
(which, you should be warned, will give bogus results if you happen to
redirect stdin to your program)..

Fred