input from user

[ji3m]

Is there any way to get a single line input from user without filling the entire screen with a form as INPUT does?

The hard question is twofold. What i need is

(1) user input from the normal input line. Even msdos lets me do this.

(2) multi line user input . The INPUT function takes up the entire screen but still is a single line form.

What is needed is just simple access to the input buffer from a program.
e.g.

avar := userinput ();

which returns a raw string when the user hits return.

So do i need to write my own editor just to get non-form base raw input?