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From: mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
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Date: 8 Aug 89 23:37:00 GMT
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 Wait a minute -- am I missing something here? Isn't conventional (Kernighan-
 Ritchie) C supoosed to be capable of system-calls to the operating-system, 
 say, to switch I/O-mode from cooked to raw, thereby obviating the  on
 char-input, then switching back when done?