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From: "David H. Haley" <dhaley@onlink.net>
Subject: Ada Tasks and Keyboard I/O
Date: 1997/06/13
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Date: 1997-06-13T00:00:00+00:00
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I have developed a software package in Ada and thought it would be nice
to have the time perodically updated on the screen while waiting for the
user to input a value from the keyboard.

This "sounds" easy enough to do using tasks; however, once the program
reaches the Get(My_Number) statement all other tasks come to a grinding
halt waiting for this keyboard I/O to occur <grr>.

Any ideas how I can accomplish the requirement in para 1 ? I am using 
Meridian OpenAda Dos ver 4.1.4, an ADA 83 compiler.

Thank you very much in advance.

David