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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
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Date: 15 Aug 89 13:32:34 GMT
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  I agree that these should be part of the standard! Anyone who has
written a (more or less) portable program knows the joy of setting raw
mode one way for SysV, another for BSD, using raw read calls in CP/M and
MS-DOS, a calling sys$read_raw$some_long_name in VMS. It gets worse as
you go to TOPS, PRIMOS, etc.

  One of the constraints of X3J11 was to "codify existing practice," and
I hope that this will continue in the next C version. Therefore, since
kbhit() and getch() are probably the widest spread, I would suggest that
the MS-DOS haters would still like to adopt this convention, since it
would simplify porting programs to other operating systems.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me