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This has just *got* to be a FAQ by now -- vgersh99 do you want to do the honours?
Mike
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"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
Mike
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"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
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vgersh99:
Since you're planning on creating a FAQ for changing the terminal driver, could you also add something like this:
# readkey: This function saves the current terminal settings and
# sets the terminal to raw mode with the unix stty command. Retrieve
# 1 character with the dd command and reset original terminal settings
# with stty before returning the character to calling script.
function readkey {
local anykey oldstty
oldstty=`stty -g`
stty -icanon -echo min 1 time 0
anykey=`dd bs=1 count=1 <&0 2>/dev/null`
stty $oldstty
echo $anykey
} # end read_key
Feel free to edit as you see fit.
Regards,
Ed
Since you're planning on creating a FAQ for changing the terminal driver, could you also add something like this:
# readkey: This function saves the current terminal settings and
# sets the terminal to raw mode with the unix stty command. Retrieve
# 1 character with the dd command and reset original terminal settings
# with stty before returning the character to calling script.
function readkey {
local anykey oldstty
oldstty=`stty -g`
stty -icanon -echo min 1 time 0
anykey=`dd bs=1 count=1 <&0 2>/dev/null`
stty $oldstty
echo $anykey
} # end read_key
Feel free to edit as you see fit.
Regards,
Ed
That's a new FAQ really Ed "How do I get user input one char at a time?"
Neat
by the way, very neat; I've always avoided answering that question because I've never bothered to figure out how to do it! Mike
______________________________________________________________________
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
Neat
by the way, very neat; I've always avoided answering that question because I've never bothered to figure out how to do it! Mike______________________________________________________________________
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
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Mike:
Thanks for the "smiley face". Wish I could say I invented "getting one character at a time", but one of my peers gave it to me sometime in the early '90s. He probably acquired it from somebody else.
I figured since Vlad was creating a FAQ on tweaking the terminal driver, this would fit in.
If you think it's reasonable I will place this in a FAQ of it's own. I haven't created one yet.
Regards,
Ed
Thanks for the "smiley face". Wish I could say I invented "getting one character at a time", but one of my peers gave it to me sometime in the early '90s. He probably acquired it from somebody else.
I figured since Vlad was creating a FAQ on tweaking the terminal driver, this would fit in.
If you think it's reasonable I will place this in a FAQ of it's own. I haven't created one yet.
Regards,
Ed
yeah - I reckon, useful tip Mike
______________________________________________________________________
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
______________________________________________________________________
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."
Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.
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