How to do non-blocking keyboard input

[Mark Callow]

In article <9006140143.aa19050 at WOLF.BRL.MIL>, mike at BRL.MIL (Mike Muuss) writes:
|> The best way to do it is to use the select() system call.
|> 
|> Here is a portable subroutine that will show you how to do it.
|> 	Best,
|> 	 -Mike
|> 
|> -------
|> /*
|>  *			B S D S E L E C T
|>  *
|>  *  Ordinarily, a stub for select() could have been implemented here,
|>  *  but the IRIS defines a graphics library routine select().
|>  *  On non-BSD systems, select() is a name likely to have been reused,

The GL routine "select" was renamed gselect in release 3.0 more than 2 years
ago.

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