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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
Message-ID: <19095@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 14:31:18 GMT
References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <225800206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1677@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1677@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) writes:
>  One of the constraints of X3J11 was to "codify existing practice," and
>I hope that this will continue in the next C version. Therefore, since
>kbhit() and getch() are probably the widest spread, I would suggest that
>the MS-DOS haters would still like to adopt this convention, since it
>would simplify porting programs to other operating systems.

What does `kbhit()' mean when stdin is a socket?  How about in a VMS
batch job?

What does getch() do at end of file?

Before you settle on  as a standard across hundreds of systems, be sure
 can well-defined everywhere.
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