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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
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Date: 11 Aug 89 17:28:09 GMT
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In article <21175@cup.portal.com> Tim_CDC_Roberts@cup.portal.com writes:
>Definitively, once again:
>
>    THERE IS NO STANDARD, O.S.-TRANSPARENT METHOD OF READING A SINGLE
>    KEYSTROKE WITHOUT A CR.  Never has been, never will be.

Never?

How about if someone begs with the ANSI committee to have its
implementation as a standard function required for compliance?

No?

Has it been tried?

				--Blair
				  "I mean, compiler code itself
				   is nonportable, right?"