From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: get one-character input from user
Date: 19 Oct 2001 14:48:14 GMT
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Bart van den Burg <bart AT bart99 DOT tmfweb DOT nl> wrote:

> I want to get user input, but only one keyboard key at a time
> without having to push enter.  how do I do this?

getkey(), or getch()

To be found in <pc.h> or <conio.h>

For further information:

	info libc functional conio
or	info libc functional bios

Note: this is all PC-specific. Don't expect to be find these functions
on other platforms, if you ever port this program.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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