This usually depends on how you configured your tty. I think by default it is buffered by the OS until a newline so it's probably not PHP which needs changing but your settings.
Andi At 12:30 PM 12/15/2001 -0800, August Zajonc wrote: >I've really run into a wall trying to get single charachters from stdin. > >Something similar to the getchar macro or a real fgetc would be nice. > >The current behavior is that more than a signle charachter can be typed and >fgetc only returns when it sees a "\n". > >I'd like it to return immediatly after the first charachter. > >fscanf with a format string something like "%c" requires a "\n" before >returning as well, though I suppose that is more understandable. > >various things like fread with length of 1 also don't work. > >This is missing functionality for which there is no workaround that would >certainly make shell scripting easier. It should be relativly trivial to >implement, either an unbuffered fgetc option or a new function or something. > >-AZ > > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
