Echoing chars and input functions

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Fri Aug 19 23:39:36 AEST 1988


In article <5940003 at hpcupt1.HP.COM> williamo at hpcupt1.HP.COM (William
O'Saughnessy) writes:
>OK, what is the proper and portable way to get a character from stdin
>without having it echoed to the screen?!!!!

There is no such way.  C may legitimately be used on a half-duplex
terminal.  (For that matter, there may be no `screen'.)
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