Press any key to continue?

Bamm wrote:
 
>
>
> I'm sorry it didn't help. It was still asking for an Enter after any
> key was pressed. :(
Is there an equivalent pchar()?  In some compilers I remember a
function that did not wait for enter.

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Bamm wrote:
(snip)

> I'm sorry it didn't help. It was still asking for
>an Enter after any key was pressed. :(

You need something like getch(), which in unix is part
of the ncurses library.  Even with that, you need
cbreak() to turn off line buffering.

This is not part of the Fortran standard, but your
system might have it.

-- glen

Luka Djigas wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:33:50 -0700 (PDT), Bamm <bammster@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>
> Why not just "Press RETURN to continue" ?
>
> People do seem to have trouble with the "any key" anyway :-)

My keyboard doesn't even *have* an "Any" key.

cheers,

paulv

p.s. My keyboard also doesn't have a "Return" key.

p.p.s.  :o)

> > Why not just "Press RETURN to continue" ?
> 
>
> My keyboard doesn't even *have* an "Any" key.
>
> cheers,
>
> paulv
>
> p.s. My keyboard also doesn't have a "Return" key.
>
> p.p.s.  :o)


I'd just want to add: when I was new using computers, I never had
trouble pressing any key - I thought is was pretty straightforward
English, and I am not a native English speaker!

However I did have trouble finding the RETURN key. I had an ENTER key,
but it took me several ws to figure out that they were the same.

At least telling a user to press "any" key had double meaning; one may
interpret it the right or wrong way. However there is nothing in
standard English to suggest that the words Return and Enter are
somehow synonymous. One has to have good background in computer
history for this to be naturally understood.

Paul van Delst wrote:
> Luka Djigas wrote: 
>
> My keyboard doesn't even *have* an "Any" key.

If you go to tacky enough gift shops, you can buy one.  I have a
nice black one with white letters glued to my desktop keyboard. ;)

Dick Hendrickson

p.s.  And yes, it was hard to glue the white letters to the keyboard!

>
> cheers,
>
> paulv
>
> p.s. My keyboard also doesn't have a "Return" key.
>
> p.p.s.  :o)
>

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:13:48 -0700 (PDT), Bamm <bammster@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I'd just want to add: when I was new using computers, I never had
>trouble pressing any key - I thought is was pretty straightforward
>English, and I am not a native English speaker!
>
>However I did have trouble finding the RETURN key. I had an ENTER key,
>but it took me several ws to figure out that they were the same.

I am not a native english speaker either, so maybe I misunderstood,
but Return and Enter key are not the same.
Although the difference today is less known that it was, apart from
the return key being the left one on an average keyboard, and enter
key being the right-down one, there is also the difference in their
function. For which I leave you with wikipedia, or EDT editor which
one used to use under msdos :-)


>
>At least telling a user to press "any" key had double meaning; one may
>interpret it the right or wrong way. However there is nothing in
>standard English to suggest that the words Return and Enter are
>somehow synonymous. One has to have good background in computer
>history for this to be naturally understood.

pozdrav
dig

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:13:48 -0700 (PDT), Bamm wrote:

> However I did have trouble finding the RETURN key. I had an ENTER key,
> but it took me several ws to figure out that they were the same.

My keyboard has both a RETURN key and an ENTER key.  Although they can be
used interchangeably most of the time, they send different keycodes and
there are a few applications that actually distinguish between the two.
Mathematica is one example.  A RETURN simply means I want to continue
typing on the next line, while an ENTER means to evaluate the expression
in the current cell.


--
Dave Seaman
Court affirms Judge Yohn's ruling.
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41761>

On Mar 31, 9:13=A0am, Bamm <bamms...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
>
<snip>
> However I did have trouble finding the RETURN key. I had an ENTER key,
> but it took me several ws to figure out that they were the same.

I used to use a terminal that had a key called RETURN that was
separate from ENTER.  RETURN issued a CR character, ENTER issued a
different code (don't remember which tho).  Software treated them the
same or different depending on context.

>
> At least telling a user to press "any" key had double meaning; one may
> interpret it the right or wrong way. However there is nothing in
> standard English to suggest that the words Return and Enter are
> somehow synonymous. One has to have good background in computer
> history for this to be naturally understood.

There's been so much discussion on my original post, but in the end,
the answer is simply, it can't be done in Fortran. Thanks for all the
suggestions though.

Bamm <bammster@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's been so much discussion on my original post, but in the end,
> the answer is simply, it can't be done in Fortran. Thanks for all the
> suggestions though.

Basically, that's right. There can sometimes be system-dependent ways
that might be acessible from Fortran, but it can't be done directly "in
Fortran".

Which makes it even more puzzling why such a translation would be
assigned as part of a homework. Translating something from Basic to
Fortran (particularly an old version of Fortran) seems like an odd
homework problem in the first place. It wouldn't fit well in a typival
Fortran class (because of the assumption that you know Basic). It would
fit even less well in a typical Basic class. It seems even more odd when
it is something that can't properly be translated. I suppose it could
possibly be intended as an illustration of language diferences, but it
would be a rather "nasty" approach to assign an "impossible" homework
problem and let you figure out that it is impossible. I've seen profs do
things like that, but it isn't common.

It leads one to suspect more mundane explanations.

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