User Dialog

[Mark Callow]

My guess is that you are overflowing your input buffer because qread
is returning more than just keystrokes.  For example, there will be an
INPUTCHANGE event.  Also qread returns shorts not chars so you
definitely overrun it on the 15th character you type.
--
>From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc at ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc
"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame
is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."