Re: getchar implementation without GNUishms

In article <vs0258$ncqh$1@news.xmission.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
...
This also works for me:

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BEGIN {
    cmd = "exec bash -c 'while :;do read -rsn1 < /dev/tty;echo $REPLY;done'"
    while (cmd |& getline)
print "Result:",$0
    }
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