ReadKey like Function in C

[Chris Torek]

>In <19095 at mimsy.UUCP> I asked:
>>What does `kbhit()' mean when stdin is a socket?  How about in a VMS
>>batch job?

In article <21371 at cup.portal.com> Kevin_P_McCarty at cup.portal.com writes:
>kbhit() in the absence of a keyboard owned by the process behaves
>similarly to pod_bay_doors_open() in the absence of pod bay doors owned
>by the process, namely, the behavior is undefined.  It is an error to
>interrogate a device which does not exist.

This is a reasonable definition (although not the one I would choose
for those times I have wanted something like this).

>>What does getch() do at end of file?

>Why, it returns EOF.  getch() returns an int, same as getchar().

Again, a reasonable definition---but as others point out, not what
MSDOS does.
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