ReadKey like Function in C

[Peter da Silva]

In article <13656 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, scs at adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
> It turns out that ed does reads of 1 from standard
> input.  I believe this dates to a very old version of Unix when
> it was important to do so to avoid reading past a !, the
> characters following which had to be left in some input buffer
> for the shell to read during a shell escape.

Ah yes. If anyone ever wondered about the point of the '-t' option of sh,
that's what it was for...
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