Re: Text_IO.Get_Line

[rehixon@aol.com (RE Hixon)]

In your last message you suggested using Get_Immediate.  According to all
my sources here it should work exactly the way that I want.  I only have
one problem -- it doesn't.  Cohen states in his book, Ada as a Second
Language, p. 769, that "Get_Immediate works just like the Character
version of Get, except that if the underlying operating system allows it,
unbuffered input is used."  I guess that DOS 6.22 and Win 95 are two of
those operating systems that do not allow unbuffered input.  On both
systems using GNAT 3.07, Get_Immediate did not recognize the character
input without pressing the ENTER key.  Do you have any other suggestions
or ideas that would allow me to create interactive input using Ada 95
and/or limiting the number of characters that a user can enter?  Thanks in
advance.
Russell E. Hixon, USAF                    COMM   601.377.0520
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