JK> Can anyone direct me to a method or perhaps post some sample code of
 JK> how I would achive somthing like character by character keyboard input
 JK> under unix?  
Non-portably.
 JK> I'll be using HP-UX's C++ compiler, but I'm hoping 
 JK> theres a way to do it as standard ansi c++.
Nope.  IIRC, though, HP's port of GCC has a getch() type function, which is 
merely a macro.  If you can find it in the header files, do a man on the 
function it calls.
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