Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bbn!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ima!mirror!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <1797@frog.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 89 01:06:00 GMT References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <225800206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us Lines: 18 For the 1,807,235,997th time... In article <225800206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > The language standards need some construct equivalent to what getch() > and kbhit() do on MSDOS. > This MUST be IN THE LANGUAGE STANDARD!!!!!! It MUST MUST MUST be there > (do you begin to feel the flame???) to FORCE vendors to, if necessary, > FIX THEIR OPERATING SYSTEMS SO IT WILL WORK Right. Call up International Business Machines, Incorporated, and tell them that they MUST MUST MUST change their extremely successful operating systems in order to make yourself happy. I'm sure we'll all be able to hear the laughter. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA 508-626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu