From: AW <sturmpanzer@...>
Date: 2002-08-28T02:22:08+09:00
Subject: Re: question: passive console input

Sorry guys, I meant to post this in the C group. but while its here, 
i want to do this in ruby too. Is there a built in command for this in
ruby?

>Hi, how is it that i'm able to read console input without halting the
>program. I want my program to run and update itself, but when a user
>presses a single key the program will read it precess it. Is there an
>ansi function to do this? any non ansi function? i'm writing this
>under windows.