Re: programming: how to read a key?

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From: Terry Dawson
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00

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Matt Jenkins (mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:

: 	If you are using C, well why not getchar?

Try it, without putting the terminal into raw mode getchar()
doesn't see characters until a newline character is hit.
Secondly, some of the keys being sought generate more than
one character. (n)curses handles that intelligently.

Terry

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