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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Echoing chars and input functions
Message-ID: <13094@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 13:39:36 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <5940003@hpcupt1.HP.COM> williamo@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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