Some weird variant of getchar...

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2773 at ux.acs.umn.edu> mndaily at ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes:
>...Is there any portable call (i.e., one that can be expected to work
>on most computers, without hardware hacks) that will return *whether or not*
>you have hit a key, and return a meaningful value?

See the Frequently Asked Questions list.  (Hint:  the answer is "no".)
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