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HELP RAWCHAROUT A. Sloman, July 1990 rawcharout(<character|string>) RAWCHAROUT takes a character code or string as argument and sends the character, or the characters in the string, to the terminal, using the device *POPRAWDEVOUT. Output is buffered. That is characters will not actually be sent until the buffer (size 128 or greater) is full, or a null character is output (RAWCHAROUT(0)), or either sysflush(poprawdevout); or rawcharin(); is executed. VED previously used -vedoutascii- for all output to the screen. Now that -rawcharout- accepts strings it can be used directly, and -vedoutascii- is therefore redundant. See also HELP *SYSFLUSH HELP *POPRAWDEVOUT - returns the device for 'raw' terminal input/output HELP *RAWOUTFLUSH - procedure which flushes POPRAWDEVOUT's output buffer HELP *CHAROUT - character consumer: non-raw alternative to RAWCHAROUT HELP *RAWCHARIN - reads from the terminal without prompt or echo HELP *ASCII - on character codes REF *SYSIO, *CHARIO - further details of I/O procedures --- C.all/help/rawcharout --- Copyright University of Sussex 1990. All rights reserved. ----------