Number of chars in input queue - terminal, keyboard

[T. William Wells]

In article <1439 at sas.UUCP> jwd at sas.UUCP (John W. DeBoskey) writes:
:    The subject almost says it all. I'm running ISC 1.0.6. I want to
: find out how many characters are available to read from the terminal
: if there are any. ie: avail = in_queue(term_id).

As far as I know, it can't be done without kernel hacking.

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