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"Frank Hickman" <fhickman_nosp@m_noblesoft.com> wrote in message
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> Coming along, one thing sticks out though...in your yn() function your
still
> not handling special keys.  Run it and try pressing F1, you should hear
two
> beeps.  This is because getch() will return zero or 0xE0 for special keys
in
> which case getch() must be called again to get the extended key code.
>
> --
> Frank
>
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Thanks Frank,

My version of CHOICE.COM on win98 gives 2 beeps when F1 is pressed, so I
think  I'll leave it unless you think I should be doing something special
with the special keys which I could put in as a non-standard extension.

No promises but Im close to a version 0.5 of  a full blown choice command
and would prefer to add no more features unless absolutely necessary to keep
maintenance  time to a minimum. I just wanted to port my bat files from 98
to xp and be confident that I would have the choice command available, as
well as humour myself with some C. I have seen a version in assembler on
google but no source was available.

Its gonna be 5-10 pages of code unless I have really underestimated how to
properly check parameters. At this sort of size, I think its too small to
stick on sourceforge but I would like to make it available as open source
and generate more interest and testing as I have had many queries about
where it has gone in xp. Is there an appropriate site you could reccomend ?

How about reducing its size? If I could get it down to a couple of kb I
would be tempted to stay with C for a final version.

Obvious ideas are:-
a) rewrite in assembler - which appeals to me since its an opportunity to
learn more assembler too. I guess I could start with the assembler out put
you can get from the compiler or keep hunting for an open source file as a
starting point. Anyway thats for another day and another newsgroup.
b) use all size optimization flags on compile
c) do some sort of squeeze and remove debug info
d) use some neat tricks that strip out unused code within these large exe
files. Im guessing there are some neat tricks!

Any thoughts?
Hal.