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From: edwin AT cs DOT ucla DOT edu (E. Robert Tisdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Help Needed Reading Keyboard Scancodes
Date: 2 Aug 1995 02:22:06 GMT
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I think I know how to trap keyboard scancodes using interrupt vector 0x15
thanks to all the help I got from people in this and other newsgroups.

Now, I need to know how to get an `istream' object to read the scancodes.
Apparently, an `ifstream' attached to `/dev/con' expects ASCII characters,
echos each character I type and waits until I press the Enter key before
it delivers any characters to my program.

Is there a clever way to change this behavior?

If not, I suppose I could manage my own scancode buffer apart from the
keyboard buffer if someone could tell me how to get an `istream' to source
my scancode buffer instead of the keycode buffer.

Thanks in advance, Bob Tisdale.