From: rsvagera@atpibm6000.tuwien.ac.at (Robert Svagera) Subject: getch() without curses ? 31 Aug 1997 16:00:25 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <"mr.tuwien..999:31.08.97.13.17.30".cygnus.gnu-win32@mr.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: rsvagera@atpibm6000.tuwien.ac.at Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Mailer: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Is it necessary to use curses library to have a function compatible to getch() of DOS compilers or would it be possible to change the line buffered input stream temporarily to unbuffered (and the terminal mode as well, if necessary), read one character and switch back to line buffered mode? Is it done this way by DOS C-compilers? Thank you in advance, Robert - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".