From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,e69fe82e62bfec92
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-11 21:29:10 PST
Path: 
 bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!admii!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody
From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: keyboard polling in ADA
Date: 11 Mar 1995 22:32:22 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Message-ID: <3jtq06$6ar@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
References: <3jq23r$40r@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> <3jqk5o$sr@dmsoproto.ida.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu
Date: 1995-03-11T22:32:22-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

David Wheeler said

"1. Use a pragma Convention(...) and call the operating system, presuming
   that the OS provides a way to poll the keyboard.
   This is usually easy."

He meant pragma Import, pragma Convention won't get you very far in calling
an operating system service routine!