From: nealk@net66.com ("Neal Krawetz") Subject: Read from keyboard? 31 Aug 1997 16:25:56 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199708311543.KAA01411.cygnus.gnu-win32@winslow.net66.com> Reply-To: "Neal Krawetz" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" X-Mailer: Generic Mailer (5.87) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hello, I have a text-based application that has been successfully ported to OS/2, SunOS, Linux, IRIX, and HP-UX. (The only difference is the non-blocking read from a keyboard function.) I'd like to port it to Win95. I have tried GCC and an older version of Cygnus-GCC, but both seem to be unable to perform a non-blocking read from a text-based application. I'm basically looking for "int getch(stdin)" where it returns the character in the read buffer, or -1 if no character is available. Under GCC for OS/2, the function _read_kbd(0,0,0) does exactly what I want. Under Unix, we use curses to set stdin to non-blocking. Is a possible to make a text-based application with non-blocking read from stdin using the current Cygnus GCC compiler? If so, how? (I wrote about 6 months ago with the same question and was told that it currently cannot be done, but may be possible in the future.) -Neal - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".