printf, data presentation

[A. Wen]

In article <8332 at ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen at ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>Most OSes make the inkey() function possible, but hardly easy.
>I know it takes a lot of ioctl() bashing.
...
>My point is that some guru should have figured out how to do
>inkey() on the OS in question and put this in the library.
>Then ordinary programmers wouldn't have to figure it out
>for the zillionth time.

But it's very, very easy:

(with cbreak mode set)

#include <ioctl.h>

char inkey()
{
	int count=0;

	ioctl(0,FIONREAD,&count);  
	return(count?getchar():NULL);
}


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