DN> On Monday, 01-16-1995  Jerry McBride wrote to David Noon about "Rexx -
 DN> Inkey$ ?" as follows:

JM>  DN> Have you looked at the CHARIN() function? This should allow
JM>  DN> you to receive keyboard characters without waiting for the
JM>  DN> ENTER key to be pressed. (I presume that's what you want to
JM>  DN> do.)
JM> 
JM> Yes, that's what I want to do. However, the rexx 
JM> information file says that if charin is used to get 
JM> characters from the keyboard, that it will wait for 'enter' 
JM> to be pressed.

 DN> Provided you specify a length of 1 byte, it will not 'block' until the
 DN> current input buffer is exhausted. As soon as a byte is received from
 DN> the keyboard your program will resume. Thus, each keypress will
 DN> activate your program.

The REXX reference manual agrees with you but I can't seem to get CHARIN
from the keyboard to function properly for me. If you have a simple,
working REXX script that illustrates waiting for a single character then
please post it.

Bill


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