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From: elric AT wheel DOT ucdavis DOT edu (Jeffrey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: HELP! How do I query/poll keyb?
Date: 20 Dec 1995 20:54:07 GMT
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#include <conio.h>

if (kbhit() != 0) {
    c = getche();   /* or getch() for no echo */

You will need to all -lpc to the end of the link command line.

Jeff

Isaac Kohn (hacker1 AT ripco DOT com) wrote:
: Greetings and salutations to you, my friends of culture,
: I am writing a small program in C that needs to be able to poll or query the
: keyboard, and all I've found (getkey(), getxkey(), getchar(), etc.) wait for
: a keypress when called.  I once had a compiler that had a procedure ci()
: that would return the last key in the keyboard buffer, or 0 if one hadn't
: been pressed.  I need something like this.  Thx much,
:  
: Isaac K.
: hacker1 AT rci DOT ripco DOT com
: ivk AT hfnet DOT sinai DOT org

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