# of characters in /dev/input

[J. Paul Landolt]

I have recently been doing some programming in MSC on Xenix (I am a 
fugitive from MS-DOS, so bear with me)

I am looking for a method of determining how many characters, if any, are
waiting to be read from /dev/input.  in MS-DOS, reading from the console
can be done, but I'm not too sure how it's done in Xenix.

Several people have suggested ideas.  One said use a signal trap. Another
said try using ftell(/dev/input). And another suggested using ioctl()

I would really appreaciate it if someone could tell me, cut and dry, how
my task could be accomplished.


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J. Paul Landolt
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