getchar()

[Burkhard Kirste]

storm at cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>>	Your problem is that getchar() does not recognize ANY input until
>>you hit Enter.
>
>    Then is there ANY way that I can have sort of "HOT KEYS" ie the user
>just hits a  key, and then the computer recognizes that a key has been hit
>and the key is sent to some variable...?  (Using MSDOS...)
>
That's trivial in Turbo C (MSDOS):  i = getch();
It is much more complicated under UNIX, but possible.
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