[Chicken-users] Reading from STDIN with the hang

[Alexej Magura]

K, so I’m currently working on an application that, if the user doesn’t provide any options/operands, reads from STDIN, like GNU cat.  I just finished adding signal-handling for SIGINT (Ctrl-c), however, now whenever I press Ctrl-c nothing happens because (read-char) hangs until I press enter.  Is there a way to use (read-char) that won’t make it hang?  Maybe something like: (if (not-null? (peek-char)) (read-char))?  I saw that (char-ready?) is supposed to prevent the next call to (read-char) from hanging, but (while I’m sure that (char-ready?) in fact works) I can’t seem to get it to work.  

Anyone have any experience with this kind of issue; would using (read-line) instead of (read-char) make a positive difference?  (I doubt it would)

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Alexej Magura
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