printf, data presentation

[Scott Schwartz]

In article <225800107 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald at uxe writes:
>I see not the tiniest reason that the functions kbhit() and getch()
>couldn't be implemented on any reasonable system, including Unix or
>VMS. I've even written a kbhit() for VMS (ugh! I'll bet Unix will be easier.)

On some systems, like VM/CMS, terminals only send a line at a time.
In other words, #define inkey getchar is the best you can do, and even
that would require doing an fgets(). Is that "reasonable"?  Don't
thank ANSI, thank IBM.
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Scott Schwartz		<schwartz at shire.cs.psu.edu>