[Lazarus] read single char from STDIN
Henry Vermaak
henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 17:38:44 CET 2011
On 18/11/11 16:18, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote:
> It really needs get(c) but this function, together with put(c), which
> were defined in Jensen & Wirth and all standard Pascals, has long been
> missing from Turbo Pascal, and all its deriviatives such as Freepascal.
How does get(c) differ from read(c)? The problem here is with the
terminal buffering the characters until return is pressed, hence the
need for re-configuring the terminal so that each key press is sent
immediately.
Henry
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