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read DEL and BACK key from stdin

From	xdevel1999 <xdevel1999@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	read DEL and BACK key from stdin
Date	2011-12-09 07:31 -0800
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Is it possible to read DEL and BACKSPACE keys from standard in?

If I use:

System.in.read()

these keys are never returned.

Thanks.

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read DEL and BACK key from stdin xdevel1999 <xdevel1999@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 07:31 -0800
  Re: read DEL and BACK key from stdin Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 08:19 -0800
  Re: read DEL and BACK key from stdin Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-09 10:29 -0800

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