Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ig!arizona!gmt From: gmt@arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <13280@megaron.arizona.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 18:19:46 GMT References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <941@lakesys.UUCP> <21175@cup.portal.com> <3705@buengc.BU.EDU> Reply-To: gmt@arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 13 The proposed ANSI standard provides setvbuf (file, NULL, _IONBF, 0) for setting non-buffered mode on a file. This would be the "standard" approach to reading keys as they are hit, and this is the spec implementors should follow when providing such a facility. **HOWEVER**, support for control of buffering is implementation-defined, and in fact I don't know of any system on which this works now. Gregg Townsend / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721 +1 602 621 4325 gmt@Arizona.EDU 110 57 16 W / 32 13 45 N / +758m