Console input in xterm from NT program?
Christopher Faylor
cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jan 13 03:01:00 GMT 2003
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:52:45PM +0100, Bj?rn Giesler wrote:
>since nobody has answered me yet, and I haven't been able to fix the problem
>so far, I'll repost it in a slightly different way:
>
>I'm looking for a way to get one-char-at-a-time stdin input in an xterm, using
>only the Win32 APIs (e.g. from wincon.h). It works in the XP console, but in
>XFree86/xterm my program doesn't get any input at all, and all input I type
>stays in the buffer and goes to the shell when I kill my program with Ctrl-C.
>
>Can anybody tell me how to get xterm to talk to me?
xterm is a pure UNIX-like environment. You can't use Windows APIs to control
it. You need to use tcsetattr.
cgf
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