Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 13:24:28 04/08/02
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On April 08, 2002 at 15:15:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 08, 2002 at 13:56:02, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>I am looking for an alternative C command (in Linux) to >> >>cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() >> >>available in C++, which I currently use to test for input while pondering. >> >>Not because I am insane, but I need to remove C++ I/O so that I can compile my >>program with the Intel compiler under Mandrake 8.2. (There seems to a problem >>with the substitute headers in this version of Mandrake.). >> >>As as aside, as I have removed progressive amount of C++ I/O, the executable has >>got smaller and slower. >> >>Frank > > >What does "in_avail()" do??? > >If you are testing for input and reading it when available, look at the >Crafty source file utility.c, and examine "CheckInput()" to see how to use >select() in Unix... Returns the number of characters available for fetching. Mentioned in Tim Mann's xboard documentation. I tried the select() command, straight from the man pages, but obviously messed up. Time to examine Crafty - again - thanks. Frank
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