a unix terminal question

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From: Chris
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:14

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   How does one read in a character from standard input without having
the program wait for the key.  Basically, I want to do something like:
    if(kbhit()) c=getch();
Except that is not standard, and I want it to work on all platforms.
Thanx. 

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