Xref: utzoo comp.std.c:1512 comp.lang.c:20634 Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <1989Aug13.004829.28322@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <941@lakesys.UUCP> <21175@cup.portal.com> <3705@buengc.BU.EDU> <10712@smoke.BRL.MIL> <13446@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 00:48:29 GMT In article <13446@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes: >Doug is correct, but the astonishing frequency with which this >question arises (I think it's been asked on comp.lang.c three >times in the past week alone) indicates that the opportunity is >ripe for some kind of informal, community-"standard" solution. I strongly suggest that you read IEEE standard 1003.1, i.e. POSIX, before re-inventing the wheel pointlessly. POSIX compliance will be widespread in the very near future, so the POSIX approach will automatically be *far* more widespread than any "community 'standard'" approach. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu