Re: [Chicken-users] Fw: Re: Reading from STDIN with the hang

[John Cowan]

Alexej Magura scripsit:

> At the present, my current plan is to try rolling my own (read-char)
> in C, since the one that comes with Chicken Scheme hangs until it
> sees a carriage return.  

That's not Scheme, that's the way the terminal driver behaves.  You need
to use stty to change the terminal driver to return characters as
soon as they are typed, and then read-char will do what you want it to.

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