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Article #3989Re: How to enable ctrl-break in a Standard C program
From: Christopher R. Volpe
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:39
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:39
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In article <431qar$691@isoit109.bbn.hp.com>, Bruno RICHARD <bruno_richard@hp-france-om1.om.hp.com> writes: >Under DOS, if a program does not call the BIOS, for instance while doing >a loop, it is not possible for the user to send a ctrl-break. > >I want to make a long loop, but still want to be able to break the >program if I want. > >One way to do this is to poll the keyboard using kbhit() regularly. >The problem is that kbhit() is NOT part of the Standard C library. > >Does anyone have an hint about how to do this cleanly? > Try comp.lang.c.moderated FAQ list. Section 16. (In a nutshell, this is a system-dependent task and there are only system-dependent solutions. The C Standard doesn't even mandate the existence of a keyboard.) -- Chris Volpe Phone: (518) 387-7766 (Dial Comm 8*833 GE Corporate R&D Fax: (518) 387-6560 PO Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301 Email: volpecr@crd.ge.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bart.crd.ge.com!volpe From: volpe@bart.crd.ge.com (Christopher R. Volpe) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: How to enable ctrl-break in a Standard C program Date: 13 Sep 1995 21:39:40 GMT Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Sender: volpe@bart (Christopher R. Volpe) Distribution: world Message-ID: <437j2s$qr9@rdsunx.crd.ge.com> References: <431qar$691@isoit109.bbn.hp.com> Reply-To: volpe@ausable.crd.ge.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bart.crd.ge.com