Haskell: read input character from console immediately, not after newline.

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Published on 2010-06-06T11:14:09Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 11:22 UTC
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I've tried this:

main = do
    hSetBuffering stdin NoBuffering 
    c <- getChar

but it waits until the enter is pressed, which is not what I want. I want to read the character immediately after user presses it.

I am using ghc v6.12.1 on Windows 7.

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