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Mark Davis (mark@taylor.infi.net) wrote:
: vampyr@bu.edu (Eamon Daly) writes:

: >We have a foxpro program which loops continuously,
: >checking for the  presence  of  input files  in  a
: >certain directory. Unfortunately,   the    program
: >locks out the function  keys occasionally so  that
: >switching  between  ttys   on   the   console   is
: >impossible.

: If you have an application which loops continuously, running under Unix
: (even in Foxpro), I would consider the program broken....  Try to get the
: loop removed, it is a waste of valuable CPU time.

I'd definitely concur there -- this works well under DOS, but not under
Unix. There's some spoofing you could do with the terminal driver and
termio ioctl() calls, but for some reason I doubt you can access them
from inside FoxPro.

Basically, I'm guess you're sitting waiting for the next keystroke and
attempting to do some work procedure while there isn't one?

-scottm