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From: kremser AT sbox DOT tu-graz DOT ac DOT at (Herbert Kremser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: need something better than kbhit()
Date: 25 Oct 1995 01:49:12 GMT
Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
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To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
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How can you determine if something is available at stdin?
I rather need a nonblocking input function.

kbhit() doesn't work, since it checks the real keyboard, not the
(buffered) stdin descriptor.

What i need is something like:

for (;;)
  {
  if (something_in_input)
    {
    read(0, buf, 256);
    /* queue that input */
    }
  /* do something here */
  }

or maybe something similar to:

fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);  /* make stdin nonblocking */
for (;;)
  {
  r_read = read(0, buf, 256);
  if (r_read < 0)
    {
    if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
      /* thats ok */ ;
    else
      /* report that error */
    }
  /* do something here */
  }

I have no idea how to achieve either of this approaches with djgpp,
by reading the faq and documentation.
So many thanks for leading a djgpp newbie on the right path.  :-)

Herbert

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Herbert Kremser                                      |  "On the Internet,
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