Sorry if this is as dumb as I feel, but I haven't been successful at digging out an answer.
I would like a routine to read the keyboard and report the single key pressed, and give me control back without waiting for ENTER to be pressed. Under MSDOS (where all of my c experience has been) there was a c routine called getch() that would do just this. I can't seem to find one under Linux. I have tried calls to setvbuf specifying _IONBF, hoping that it would alter the workings of fgetc(stdin), but it didn't seem to help. I tried copying the unbuffered getchar routine (which uses read(0,&c,1)) from K&R, but it waits for me to press ENTER, too. The only success I've had involved guessing at how to use Curses. Unfortunately, although the man pages for individual curses routines (like it's getch) say 'see also curses(3x)' there apparently is no such page on my system, so I really don't know if I am misusing things or not. (Second question: is there an overview of Curses available somewhere ?). Could somebody point me in the right direction ? Thanks, Buz Davis -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
