From: Ken Wright Date: August 24, 2004 9:39:44 AM PDT To: Jeff Weeks Subject: Re: FPC ncrt Hi Jeff, It's been a while since I've done much serious console work with fpc so things may be different now, but..... Generally speaking the behaviour of crt in both fpc & tp should be the same (read returns char immediately, readln waits for <enter>). Where I ran into difficulty with crt originally was on Linux. Because crt was written for a fixed dos console, programs for Linux only worked well on the console. This was the inspiration to write a curses based crt replacement. If you are writing for Linux, then I do suggest using ncrt, as it is terminal independant and therefore works virtually the same on any console/terminal. For dos, ncrt of course will not work. I believe there is/was a dos port of curses but I don't really see the point unless for complete code compatibility between platforms. There are tons of great screen units that make dos scream ;-) Cheers! Ken On 08/24/2004 10:54 am, you wrote: > Oooops! this was a question about ncrt. > > Thanks. > > Jeff > > Begin forwarded message: >> From: Jeff Weeks >> Date: August 24, 2004 10:51:37 AM PDT >> To: >> Subject: FPC nCurses >> >> Hi Ken. I'm converting a TP program to FP and having difficulty >> reading the keyboard buffer. I don't get any keys until after ENTER >> is pressed. Which is different from normal TP behavior. Would >> switching from crt to ncrt solve this problem? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Jeff Weeks >> Rutgers University