Getchar w/wout echo

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Aug 24 02:46:00 AEST 1988


In article <65197 at sun.uucp> alanf%smile at Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) writes:
>I have always thought that this was an omission in the stdio I/O library.
>If turning echo on and off was defined as part of fread, fwrite, printf, ...
>
>It is to late to get this into the ANSI-C standard I guess.

Much too late.  But I believe POSIX's latest revision has included a set
of terminal-control functions that look plausible.
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