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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
Message-ID: <5717@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Aug 89 15:17:07 GMT
References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <941@lakesys.UUCP> <2851@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <2851@ssc-vax.UUCP>, leea@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lee Carver) writes:
> In this zoo of discussion on "getch", i'd like to add a shot in
> support of "kbhit()".  In particular, I'd like kbhit to return
> ture if input is waiting (i.e. getchar will NOT block) and
> false otherwise.

Well, I'd personally prefer a function that would return the number of
characters available to read. That would have more meaningful semantics
for files, and also allow more efficient I/O under UNIX.
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