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echo: muffin
to: Wes Garland
from: Bob Jones
date: 2003-06-30 08:06:26
subject: Keyboard Polling...

BJ> Check out how tail -f looks for file changes and 
 BJ> see if same idea can be applied to looking at 
 BJ> keyboard in maximus code....
 WG>  
 WG> Poll uses a blocked read; this isn't suitable for max, 
 WG> because it wouldn't be able to do anything else under 
 WG> the OS notified it that has a keystroke in the buffer.

Ok.  You're right, that won't work for us.....  Need to find that interupt
call that was made for releasing time to the multi-tasker and add something
there for the Linux / Unix implementation.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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