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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody)
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Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
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Date: 18 Aug 89 21:31:12 GMT
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In article <21371@cup.portal.com> Kevin_P_McCarty@cup.portal.com writes:

| >What does getch() do at end of file?
| 
| Why, it returns EOF.  getch() returns an int, same as getchar().

  It hangs in every implementation I've tried... I agree it *should*
return EOF, but it doesn't. Without EOF it can't be used on
pipes/streams/sockets or whatever you like.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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