Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!purdue!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <3705@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 11 Aug 89 17:28:09 GMT References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <941@lakesys.UUCP> <21175@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.std.c Distribution: usa Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 18 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?"