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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:40:22 -0500
From: Jonathan Meunier <jonathanm AT corel DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how to read keys
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mukt1000 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  1.As a newbie I couldnt find a good replacement for pascal's "readkey"
> function in djgpp c++ v2.03
>   (reads a key from the keyboard and returns the key-number);
>  the "bioskey" and "kbhit" is slow.
> 
> 2.I use c++ but I still use "libc.a" functions,is it worth to use  libg++
> and are there any good referances
>   for it.(libc.a has a very good referance with all functions included)

Try getch()..

eg:

int main() {
   char key;

   key = getch();
   printf("You typed %c!",key);

   return 0;
}

HTH,
	.(Trancelucid).
	  .  Jaune  .