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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
Message-ID: <10712@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Aug 89 21:13:22 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <3705@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>How about if someone begs with the ANSI committee to have its
>implementation as a standard function required for compliance?

Not only is it too late, but I think it was proposed and justly was
awarded a "VE" stock response code, meaning:  The Standard must
accommodate a variety of environments.

IEEE Std 1003.1 does specify such facilities for POSIX environments.