kbhit/pause on Windows?

[Rik]

12/2/15

Does kbhit() work correctly for any Windows users?  At least in my Windows
XP virtual machine the following code is broken.

x = kbhit

Instead of waiting for a single keypress and returning it, the terminal
seems to be line oriented.  You can type as many characters as you want,
but the last one has to be a <Return> in order for the function to
complete.  This also affects pause() since the two functions rely
internally on octave_kbhit() in sysdeps.cc.

I have a patch that works for me after cross-building with MXE, but I want
to confirm that others are having this problem.

--Rik