On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Jeremy Elson wrote:
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 96 22:32:29 EST
> From: Jeremy Elson <jelson@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
> To: Sammy <samedi@clark.net>
> Cc: root <root@crossfire.1234net.com>, circle@pvv.unit.no,
> jelson@pvv.unit.no
> Subject: Re: Is there a getch()?
>
>
> > > This is more of a general c question I think. I want someone to be able
> > > to type in a letter and have my code react immediately (not after they
> > > press enter). All of the ansi c books I have say to use getch(). I
> > > don't have getch(). It is supposed to be in stdio.h or conio.h. I don't
> > > have a conio.h and it isn't in stdio.h. I am running linux(bunch of
> > > different versions) with gnu c 2.6.3. Is there another name for getch()?
> >
> > The character-grabber in C I'm familiar with is getc(), but it polls
> > standard input, not a socket.
> >
> > If you look deep into the socket-handling routines in circle, you may
> > find an input buffer. If you can find this (I'm not sure if it exists in
> > circle, I'm just guessing it works this way), and learn how it works, you
> > can check the buffer before it gets passed to the command interpreter,
> > and just check for the oldest character (the one that was entered first
> > since the last buffer purge).
>
> getc() and getch() should be in most standard C implementations; the problem
> is not finding the right function but the fact that telnet clients are
> usually in line mode when they connect to Circle (i.e. the 'telnet' program
> only sends a complete line to Circle after the carriage-return, so getc()
> and getch() will be useless).
>
> You could tell 'telnet' to go to character mode if you really wanted to,
> but I *strongly* recommend not doing that because it will drastically
> increase the amount of network traffic.
If I wanted to design a new editor for circle that looks or acts like pico
or vi and use this type character mode format...how would I go about
turning it on? and turning line by line mode back on when I am done
with character mode? Ie: what are the exact commands to send to the telnet
client? I have been toying with the idea of putting a pico type editor
for OLC and writing board messages and such into circlemud for a while now..
Any help would be appriciated...
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