Re: DOS graphics help needed

[haible (Bruno Haible)]

William Echard <wechard@YorkU.CA> writes:

> I've looked through my LISP manuals for some kind of pause or
> key-detecting function, but no luck.  Sorry for the newbie question, but any
> help would be appreciated.

Such a function hasn't been standardized. In CLISP, something like

  (with-keyboard (clear-input *keyboard-input*) (read-char *keyboard-input*))

will wait until a key is pressed. Please refer to impnotes.txt, section 21.1,
for details.


                    Bruno Haible
                    haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de