levisonm@qucis.queensu.CA (Mark Levison) (08/18/89)
For all of the people advocating the readkey() or some such other mechanism to get get the next character without an echo there are some enviroments were this is not possible. In the IBM VM/CMS enviroment the front processor doesn't give the main machine any of your keystrokes until you hit <enter> or one of the PF keys (Blue speak). So in the CMS enviroment it is not possible to implement this routine. I am sure that most enviroments that can implement this function do. To implement a standard function for all your programs across all your favorite enviroments create a function called readkey() and make it do the right thing for each enviroment. See that wasn't so difficult after all. Mark Levison | Time to go back to work now. levisonm@qucis.queensu.ca | #incldue "disclaimer.h" |