On May 10, 2005, at 10:22 AM, YANAGAWA Kazuhisa wrote:

> In Message-Id: <D99ECD6A-8AFA-4383-A1EC- 
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> James Edward Gray II <james / grayproductions.net> writes:
>
>
>> Can you tell me how to read individual characters with termios?  I've
>> been messing with it and I can't get that right for anything.  I
>> clearly don't know the secret handshake!
>>
>
> Uhm, is the following URL useful?
> <http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/48407>
>
> # Well that's an old and brief article so probably you should make
> # sure both ruby-termios things and underlying termios function.

Yes, this helped a lot, thank you.  (Sorry for my delayed response.)

I have evaluated this and I still prefer using stty here.  For now,  
HighLine will go that way.  However, I promise to revisit the issue  
as soon as someone makes a good case against it.  :)

James Edward Gray II