How can I read keyboard without stopping

[Henry Spencer]

In article <5558 at rpp386.UUCP> jfh at rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>stat() is implemented by taking chunks of the inode table enty and stuffing
>that into a "struct stat" thingy.  i believe the number of characters
>queued in a pipe was a side effect (read `feature') of the implementation
>of pipes, and probably not intentional.

Possibly so in the beginning, but it *was* documented in V7.
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