ReadKey like Function in C

[Sean Fagan]

In article <3802 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <3180 at scolex.sco.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>The *only* place I've seen a need for something like that is in
>>games, which, I regret to inform you, are not the staple of most
>>programmers.

As I've pointed out before, I worked for about two years on a system that
didn't have single-character I/O, yet had a very nice full-screen editor
(specifically, FSE under NOS running on a CDC Cyber 170/760).

Doug Gwynn uses, I believe, an editor which doesn't use scio either (sam
running on a DMD 630).

Maybe I should have been a bit clearer:  I have not really seen a need for a
portable way to do this, except for games and the like.  Most other programs
will *not* be portable to all systems supporting C (MicroEmacs, and editor
which is fairly portable, does it by being #ifdef'd and relying on unix
compatable libraries), so having a "portable" scio routine such as ReadKey()
is not really helping things.

Both proponents and conponents (is that a real word?  it should be...) will
be able to drag up examples to support their cause.  For my side, I'd only
suggest programming for a while on a Cyber (or, if you can't do that, on an
IBM system with virtual card-punches); you will, eventually, learn that scio
is *not* necessary for most things, and the lack is only a bit inconvenient 
at time.

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