GRIEB@LOCKE.HS.WASHINGTON.EDU (CINDY GRIEB) (03/31/88)
I am having a problem with my TURBO PASCAL program when reading from the keyboard. In fact I am having two problems... The first is, that the program ignores all type-ahead (a habit hard to break). The second is related... namely that I can't seem to recognize any of the special function keys (eg. I see the leading <ESC> but not the following character). I am using TURBO PASCAL v.3.01A for generic MS-DOS on my Z100 (MS-DOS v.3.10). I have tried playing with the D&G compiler directives to no avail. I have been doing my input with statements like Read(c) and Read(KBD,c). Is there some way to tell either TURBO PASCAL or MS-DOS not to throw away they "type-ahead" characters? Hopefully, Cindy Grieb IN%"Locke.hs.Washington.edu" UWALOCKE.bitnet
HALDERMAN@NOSC-TECR.ARPA (Mike) (04/01/88)
Cindy, I seem to remember that you have to disable Control-C checking in Turbo Pascal to be able to use the typeahead and to read escape sequences. Mike Halderman (Halderman@nosc-tecr.arpa)