NOVICE question: How to know when a key is pressed

[Scott Amspoker]

In article <1991Apr11.155200.12819 at ericsson.se> etxpihl at tore.ericsson.se (DEE Tomas Pihl) writes:
>I want to know how you can scan if a specific key has been pressed.
>Just as this program I'm using know know that i press eg. ESC.
>I don't want the pressed key to be echoed out to the screen as it is
>with getchar().

What you want is to be able to read individual key strokes without
echo.  There is no standard way to do it.  On unix/xenix systems
check the ioctl() calls in your manual.  On MSDOS you can perform
raw console I/O (again, check the manual).  Another newsgroup can
probably provide a better answer.

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