From: Hee-Sob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2001-01-12T13:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9174] Re: Grabbing a char from the keyboard...


"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote in message
news:00ac01c07c50$5af4e280$01f9fea9@austin.rr.com...
> Thank you, Goto, Matz, and Hideto...
>
> Now is it possible to do it in Windows, without
> Cygwin and without a C extension?
>
> Never mind platform independence; can it be
> done at all?
>
> Hal Fulton
>

How about this in ruby distribution /ext/Win32API/getch.rb ?

  require 'Win32API'
  getch = Win32API.new("crtdll", "_getch", [], 'L')
  puts getch.Call.chr

Hee-Sob Park