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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
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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?"