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Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:41:27 PDT
From:	Steven Levine <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: REXX wait & window

In <35FB318B.78FC@peterskye.com>, on 09/12/98
at 07:40 PM, Peter Skye said:

>In Rexx, how do I:

This is old, but since no one answered...

I don't know how to do either of these without add-on libraries.

>1. Sense if a keystroke is waiting in the keyboard buffer. I can't use
>SysGetKey because it waits for a key press if the keyboard buffer is

Querecus' REXXLIB has an INKEY() for this.

>2. Set an OS/2 window to a specific size, say 8 lines by 30 characters.
>I can't use SysTextScreenSize because it reports the size of the screen
>but doesn't set it. I want to set the screen size to a specific
>program-defined value when the Rexx program starts.

Text mode? If so, 4OS2 provides support to do this when you start a
session.

Steven

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