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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1208624bb4d35c0b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Gwen Ricker" Subject: Re: getting characters Date: 1998/11/22 Message-ID: <73aa6a$gtl@apple.telalink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 414628961 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT References: <01be1183$70af57c0$662aa8c0@atlantis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: If you are wanting to get a single character try using get_immediate...I think that will work.... g.r. Jasper Renow-Clarke wrote in message <01be1183$70af57c0$662aa8c0@atlantis>... , >I am having trouble getting characters from the keyboard >the closest I have got is : >in_char:character; >get(in_char); > >but this requires me to press ENTER after the letter pressed >is there a way to remove the need to press ENTER? > >thankyou for any contributions > >Jasper Renow-Clarke > >-- > >Occam Solutions Ltd