Some weird variant of getchar...

[Dave Rackley]

>> Ok, I know this sounds stupid. However:

>> I have been looking, for ages, for a way of doing a non-waiting getchar.

>   There isn't any portable way of doing it in C, because some of the
>   operating systems C is available on cannot do it.  The best you can do
>   is make up two names (kb_getch, kb_ready, perhaps) and write an
>   implementation for each of the systems you are concerned with.

>   Perhaps it is time the net collaborated to produce model implementations
>   of these functions for MS-DOS, OS/2, VMS, BSD, S5, put them on a mail
>   server somewhere, and added the location to the FAQ?

1.  I have it for VMS.  If there is interest I'll post it. 
 
2.  MS-Quick C v2.5 has the code for MS-DOS in a sample program, tools.c!

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