ReadKey like Function in C

[Dave Hammond]

In article <941 at lakesys.UUCP> davef 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
>> [...]
>Absolutely!  You need only do the following:
>
>1.  do an "ioctl (n, TCGETA, &term)
>2.  modify some parameters, such as
>    term.c_lflag &= ~(ICANON | ECHO)  or whatever else you need
>3.  term.c_cc [VTIME] = some_value  <- for timeout, if desired
>4.  term.c_cc [VMIN] = 1  <- satisfy read with 1 character
>5.  ioctl (m, TCSETA, &term)  to reset the terminal
>6.  you can now do a read (n, &work, 10)  

True enough -- on ONE of the dozens of systems on which C compilers exist.
Remember, the name of this newsgroup is NOT comp.lang.c.on.unix.system.v !

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Dave Hammond
daveh at marob.masa.com