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[donl mathis]

In article <41627 at sgi.sgi.com>, thant at horus.sgi.com (Thant Tessman) writes:

> > char	input[15];
> >[...]
> > 	qread( input[ charCount ] );

> Change to either:
> 	qread( &input[charCount] );
> 	      or:
> 	qread( input + charC );

Closer, but it doesn't seem quite right.  Qread's argument is supposed to
be the address of a short, not a character.  I'm too tired to figure out
which half of the short the character is in and which neighboring character
gets trashed, but it seems like a bad idea in any case.

It might also be wise to check that (qread() == KEYBD) before you assume
that you're getting a character.  Here's my best guess, without echoing...

#include <gl.h>
#include <device.h>

main ()
{
	char		buff [128], *p;
	short		dev, ch;

	winopen ("temp");
	qdevice (KEYBD);
	p = buff;
	while (dev = qread (&ch)) {
		if (dev == KEYBD) {
			if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r') {
				break;
			}
			*p++ = ch;
		}
	}
	*p = '\0';
	printf ("%s\n", buff);
	gexit ();
	exit (0);
}
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