Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 10:10:33 -0400
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: WEIMER AT juncol DOT juniata DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: (LIBS) bioskey tex


> Thank you to everyone who was kind enough to answer my first question. Perhaps
> you can give a more positive reply to this one. Where can I find 'bioskey()' for
> DJGPP? I noticed source code for 'kbhit' somewhere (over the rainbow) in the
> directory tree, but 'bioskey' was not included. Would using _bios_kbd (spelling)
> which is supposed to be similar work? This is not a huge problem, as I could
> write my own using interrupts, but I'd rather be able to just do a global 
> search and replace on my source.

The appropriate key-getting routine is getkey().  There is also a
getxkey() for extended keys (I think).

> And finally - most of the docs I managed to acquire seem to be  in .tex format,
> something my sum total knowledge of could fit on one line. Non.zipeof my obvious
> guesses, ie - wuarchive - mirrors/msdos/tex - detex.zip, dview
> etc. worked - they all reported that 'xxx.tex' did not have a preabmle or
> pre-something. How do I view them (aside from taking them to a unix account)

You need to get the texinfo package from GNU to process the .tex
files.