non-buffered input for gets etc.

[Mike Matthews]

Can someone please tell me how to get a standard tty-based program to not
buffer the input?  Specifically on an '040, 2.1 NeXT.

(i.e., if I am looking for at most 10 characters, I don't want anything typed
past that to stay around for the next input sequence; I already wrote my own
routine (need to do some other stuff too), but the buffering is still killing
me)

Forgive such a basic question; I think it has something to do with an ioctl
but my brain is fried and I need to find out how to do this Real Soon Now,
but have lots of more important things to do in the meantime.

Please Email.  Thanks.
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Mike Matthews, matthews at lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews at umdd (bitnet)
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