Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:18:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Escape Sequences / Reading from Console 
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On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Noam Rotem wrote:

> >What's wrong with `getc'?  It can read single characters as well, if
> >you switch stdin to binary mode (use `setmode') and make it unbuffered
> >(use `setvbuf').  Did you try it?
> 
> I can't use 'setmode' under UNIX. This is what's wrong with it...

Then surround the call to `setmode' with #ifdef __MSDOS__ ... #endif.  
Unix doesn't need the call at all, so it will work on Unix also.

> Is there any other way to do it (using ANSI C / stdio.h)?

ANSI C doesn't specify a way that would guarantee to return one character 
at a time.  Sorry, this is one of the cases where some OS dependence is 
necessary.