Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <3802@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 89 17:36:05 GMT References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <225800206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3180@scolex.sco.COM> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.lang.c Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 14 In article <3180@scolex.sco.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > >The *only* place I've seen a need for something like that is in >games, which, I regret to inform you, are not the staple of most >programmers. No. The real biggie is editors. What I want to know is, how does EDT work, if VMS can't handle character-at-a-time devices. --Blair "And on block-mode terminals, how do you force a break?"