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Extended Example: Keyboard Input Listener
=========================================

This example illustrates how threads can be created to perform a particular
task. This style of multithreading forms the basis of programs that have
graphical user interfaces. Specifically, the example shown here acts as a custom
keyboard event listener; the child thread continually reads from the keyboard
until the user enters exactly a 7. Similarly, programs with mouse event handlers
use threads specifically for that purpose.

.. codeinclude:: Threads/ExtEx-6-1.c
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