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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Echoing chars and input functions
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Date: 18 Aug 88 03:55:11 GMT
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In article <8349@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>In article <8808160751.aa03016@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill) writes:
>>What, then, is the portable way to input a character from standard input,
>>echoing the character to the screen when necessary?
>
>We already answered that!  It's
>	c = getchar();

I could have sworn someone said their compiler did not echo the character when
they used this.  Did I misunderstand someone, or is their compiler just
non-conformant (broken)?

Frank Swarbrick (and, yes, the net.cat)           swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU
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