Caveats being.. must run under Windows, without a c compiler.

As far as I can see, the lack of compiler means I can't install Term::Readkey, (which doesn't come with the recent version of active-state perl I'm using). I did find Hotkey.pm in the docs, but that dies because... 

POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecture

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I also tried the solution proposed in How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?, that got a single character, but I still had to wait for <RETURN>

I do have Term::Cap, so if there's a way of doing a readmode('cbreak') equivalent that might be an option. Other than that I've drawn a bit of a blank. Anyone?

Cheers, Rob.

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