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From: "J.S.Souza" <jssouza@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Keyboard Input
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:50:49 -0700
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On Wednesday 08 May 2002 11:33 am, h-peter recktenwald wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002 06:30:00 -0700
>
> "J.S.Souza" <jssouza@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > I'm new to linux assembly although I have taken Assembly Programming in
> > College (unfortunately DOS based).  How is it possible to read input from
> > the keyboard until the user hits the 'enter' key?  Does using the read()
> > syscall work?  Also, how about reading only ONE character from user and
> > returning control back to the program?  Although I know C fairly well, I
> > would rather use Assembly _only_  (if this is possible).
> >
> > 			J.S.Souza
>
> => http://home.snafu.de/phpr/initty.gz
>
> regards,
> 	hp
Not the easiest thing to do is it?
Why is it that something so seemingly simple has such a complex solution?

			regards,
			Jeff