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Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms

From Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.awk
Subject Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms
Date 2025-03-25 14:10 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <vrua0r$3d1du$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <slrnvu4v4s.1su2.anthk@openbsd.home>

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On 25.03.2025 10:51, anthk wrote:
> Hello the guy from https://luxferre.top and gopher://hoi.st
> has pretty interesting stuff, such as 
> 
> [ shell specific or other tries to emulate some getchar function ]
> 
> Could it be possible to implement a true portable getchar?

Those who think that getchar is a useful function may implement that
natively in Awk. (It avoids external dependencies and all the issues
that the posted/quoted code has made obvious.)

Janis

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getchar implementation without GNUishms anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-03-25 09:51 +0000
  Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-03-25 14:10 +0100
    Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms "Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid> - 2025-03-25 22:16 -0600
      Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-03-26 05:08 +0000
        Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-03-26 05:48 +0000
      Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-03-26 06:27 +0100
        What is getchar? (Was: getchar implementation without GNUishms) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-03-26 06:07 +0000
          Re: What is getchar? (Was: getchar implementation without GNUishms) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-03-26 06:10 +0000

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