Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <10712@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 11 Aug 89 21:13:22 GMT References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <941@lakesys.UUCP> <21175@cup.portal.com> <3705@buengc.BU.EDU> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <3705@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >How about if someone begs with the ANSI committee to have its >implementation as a standard function required for compliance? Not only is it too late, but I think it was proposed and justly was awarded a "VE" stock response code, meaning: The Standard must accommodate a variety of environments. IEEE Std 1003.1 does specify such facilities for POSIX environments.