Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 02:54:03 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT abigail DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Rich Deighton <rad AT lucel DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: I/O Multiplexor
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On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I can think of a few uses:
> 
> 	1) Portability.  How else would you write a program that polls 
> the keyboard in a way that would run on both MS-DOS and Unix?

Uh.. I thought of this myself.. kbhit() for Unix.. but isn't that what 
Curses is designed for? I'd hate to do keyboard polling using select()..