From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-13T08:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Read character from keyboard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Frank" <flori@nixe.ping.de>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Read character from keyboard


> On 2003-08-13 05:18:50 +0900, Andr� Wagner wrote:
> > I wonder if it's possible to read a character from the keyboard
> > without pressing enter...
>
> It's possible:
>
> c = STDIN.getc

I don't think that will work.

There are tricks for it. They differ on
Windows and Unix -- on the latter you'd
set the tty mode to raw or some such.

See ch 4 of _The Ruby Way_.

Hal

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