From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-09-06T13:51:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Having Ruby Wait for a User Input

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 21:33, Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) wrote:

> But both depend on the underlying OS buffering - i.e. you will not get
> the characters until the user feed the input line by presseing enter.

Thus my question about what OS you are running.  Under linux (for
example) you can get around the buffering by writing something like:


begin
    `stty raw -echo`
     #
     # your code goes here...
     #
  ensure
    `stty -raw echo` 
  end

-- Markus