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Date: | Sun, 2 Jun 1996 02:54:03 +0800 (GMT+0800) |
From: | Orlando Andico <orly AT abigail DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph> |
To: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
cc: | Rich Deighton <rad AT lucel DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: I/O Multiplexor |
In-Reply-To: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.960603131243.21344B-100000@is> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.LNX.3.91.960602025302.347A-100000@abigail.eee.upd.edu.ph> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I can think of a few uses: > > 1) Portability. How else would you write a program that polls > the keyboard in a way that would run on both MS-DOS and Unix? Uh.. I thought of this myself.. kbhit() for Unix.. but isn't that what Curses is designed for? I'd hate to do keyboard polling using select()..
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