* In a message originally to Mark Kimes, Bill Patterson writes:

 MK>  BP>>>> I need to detect a keypress
 MK> 
 MK>  MK>>> Look at kbhit() and getch(), or (better) go PM and
let the OS wake
 MK> you
 MK>  MK>>> up when a user input event occurs.
 MK> 
 MK>  BP>> kbhit() sounds interesting. I'll give that a try.
 MK> 
 MK>  MK> You'll need _both_ kbhit and getch.
 MK> 
 MK> Actually, that reply may be misleading.  Assuming you only want to
 MK> retrieve a keypress, getch() is all you need.  kbhit() alone would
 MK> be of dubious value as it simply tells you that a key was pressed,
 MK> not what it was.
 MK> 
 MK> --- XHEd-OS/2 1.22

Yea, I've gone ahead and gave up on C++ cin for now and went back to the
"C" way of doing things. getch() works exactly how I want. It'd
be nice if I could get cin to work that way some how.

Bill


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