From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: IO Buffering
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:15:34 -0800
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Stephen Lyda wrote:
> 
> Basically, I am trying to cause getchar() to work correctly, returning
> after a single key is pressed, and not waiting until the buffer is
> full or a CR is encountered.

It simply isn't possible.  There is no way to shut off line buffering
for text input streams because of the way DOS works.  If you want to get
a character at a time (or perform other character-style operations), use
the <conio.h> functions, such as getch().  Of course, the conio
functions read directly from the BIOS keyboard handler, so they can't be
redirected like stdin or stdout.

For a complete list of conio functions, install the 'v2gnu/txi390b.zip'
package and type the following words of wisdom:

  info libc func conio

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