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From: williamo@hpcupt1.HP.COM (William O'Saughnessy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Echoing chars and input functions
Message-ID: <5940003@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 88 15:55:52 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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OK, what is the proper and portable way to get a character from stdin
without having it echoed to the screen?!!!!

Basic may have C beat here it defines the way with INKEY but there 
appears to be no machine independent way of doing it in C!