ReadKey like Function in C

[Tim_CDC_Roberts at cup.portal.com]

In article <941 at lakesys.UUCP>, Dave Fenske writes:
>In article <207600029 at s.cs.uiuc.edu> mccaugh at s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> >
> > Wait a minute -- am I missing something here? Isn't conventional
> > (Kernighan-Ritchie) C supoosed to be capable of system-calls to
> > the operating-system, say, to switch I/O-mode from cooked to raw,
> > thereby obviating the <CR> on char-input, then switching back when
> > done?
>
>Absolutely!  You need only do the following:
>
>1.  do an "ioctl (n, TCGETA, &term)
> (remainder deleted)

Ah, but this is not a C solution, K&R or otherwise.  It is a UNIX solution.

Definitively, once again:

    THERE IS NO STANDARD, O.S.-TRANSPARENT METHOD OF READING A SINGLE
    KEYSTROKE WITHOUT A CR.  Never has been, never will be.

If the original questioner rephrases to: "How can I do a ReadKey in
Microsoft C 5.0 on MS-DOS", THEN there is an answer.  However, the
question "How can I do a ReadKey in C?"  has no correct unqualified answer.

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