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05-14-2006

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pause? where art thou?

ok, im somewhat of an advanced programmer for the windows-side of C/C++, and the system command to pause the console is 'system("pause");'.... i just recently transfered over to Slackware 3.3 (yes, its old, but i <3 text), and pause is not the command for pausing the command line. is there any way to do this is *nix where the console pauses until the user hits anykey .... plz dont send my messages saying use cin>> or cin.getline() because thats not what im looking for... i want something similar to windows .com PAUSE.

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pause

PAUSE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  PAUSE(3)

NAME

     pause -- stop until signal

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     pause(void);

DESCRIPTION

     Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).

     The pause() function forces a process to pause until a signal is received from either the kill(2) function or an interval timer.  (See
     setitimer(2).)  Upon termination of a signal handler started during a pause(), the pause() call will return.

RETURN VALUES

     Always returns -1.

ERRORS

     The pause() function always returns:

     [EINTR]		The call was interrupted.

SEE ALSO

     kill(2), poll(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigsuspend(2)

STANDARDS

     The pause() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY

     A pause() syscall appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

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								   June 4, 1993 							       BSD