ReadKey like Function in C

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <3802 at buengc.BU.EDU>, bph at buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> No.  The real biggie is editors.
> What I want to know is, how does EDT work, if VMS can't handle
> character-at-a-time devices.

When SYS$GET() reads a record from a terminal, the record may be terminated
by CRLF **or by an escape sequence** (there are a couple of other cases).
EDT is driven by the keypad, and those keys send escape sequences.
Think of it as every record being <text> <edit command>.