dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn) (05/16/91)
I need to unbuffer my console IO under DOS and QuickC (or any variant of C). How do I do this? i.e. if there's a character waiting for me, getchar() will return it with no waiting for a return or anything else... Thanks... -- Michael Dinn, Sysop of the Moose's Swamp - Nova Scotia's largest Amiga BBS +1 (902) 463-0483, 3/12/24/48/96/14,400 baud * 170 Megabytes online Home: moose%swamp%banke1@cs.dal.ca (Amiga1000 running UUCP/BBS) School: mdinn@ac.dal.ca, dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca | These are my opinions and Work: 01Moose@dalac.bitnet IRC-Op: Moose | noone else's. (blame me :-)
drezac@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) (05/17/91)
From article <1991May15.181314.16216@cs.dal.ca>, by dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn): > > I need to unbuffer my console IO under DOS and QuickC (or any variant of C). > How do I do this? > > i.e. if there's a character waiting for me, getchar() will return it with > no waiting for a return or anything else... > > Thanks... > -- > Michael Dinn, Sysop of the Moose's Swamp - Nova Scotia's largest Amiga BBS for unbuffered IO in QuickC use getch() - It has worked well for me. ( my most recent use was to flush the key buffer after detecting a key hit. to flush the buffer , I used : while(kbhit()) getch(); -- Verse of the Hour: For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. Rom. 16:17 -- +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Duane L. Rezac |These views are my own, and NOT representitive of my place| | dsacg1!dcscg1!drezac drezac@dcscg1.dcsc.dla.mil of Employment. | +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+