Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh From: mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 23:37:00 GMT References: <148@trigon.UUCP> Lines: 5 Nf-ID: #R:trigon.UUCP:148:s.cs.uiuc.edu:207600029:000:274 Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh Aug 8 18:37:00 1989 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 theon char-input, then switching back when done?