ReadKey like Function in C

[Peter da Silva]

In article <2851 at ssc-vax.UUCP>, leea at ssc-vax.UUCP (Lee Carver) writes:
> In this zoo of discussion on "getch", i'd like to add a shot in
> support of "kbhit()".  In particular, I'd like kbhit to return
> ture if input is waiting (i.e. getchar will NOT block) and
> false otherwise.

Well, I'd personally prefer a function that would return the number of
characters available to read. That would have more meaningful semantics
for files, and also allow more efficient I/O under UNIX.
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