[Mingw-msys] MSYS: _kbhit() and _getch()

[Brendon C. <bc...@av...>]

Hi all,

    One problem I noticed a while ago was that if I create a program 
that use _kbhit() and _getch() to retrieve data from the keyboard 
without blockiong, then when I run the resulting program all works fine 
when executing under a standard windows command shell, however under the 
MSYS shell the key presses seem buffered and are not registered until 
enter is hit.

Is this intentional and is there any way around the problem?

Thanks,
Brendon.