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Despite how poorly I requested help:

    I'd like a function to read a single char from the minibuffer.  I've
    tried selecting the minibuffer window, but this appears to only happen
    after the command completes.  Any help?
    
I got what I wanted:

(defun minibuffer-read-char (prompt)   From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
  (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t)
        (echo-keystrokes 0))
    (message prompt)          ; now queries user
    (read-char)))

You can snaz this up, and I added a prompt to Kyle's code already.
I've had problems getting this to work on some local machines (i.e.
Dec3100 consoles), but the local guru has not gotten back to me on
why.  Based on the manual, it should work, and it does over a dialup
line.
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Close, but not what I wanted.  Included for your general edification,
if you've read so far, you're interested in read-char.  Both of these
don't read from the echo area, but otherwise would do what it sounded
like what I wanted no doubt:

   read-char:         (Raul acevedo@athena.mit.edu)
   Read a character from the command input (keyboard or macro).
   It is returned as a number.

(defun minibuffer-read-char (arg)    eirik@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
  (interactive "cType something: ")
  arg)

Thanks again,

Frank Ritter@cs.cmu.edu       best mail drop
      ritter@psy.cmu.edu      my real affiliation
        fr07@andrew.cmu.edu   where the above two point to