Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: making characters disappear Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 21:46:10 GMT References: <1991Feb23.014700.16507@ico.isc.com> <1991Feb19.015727.2223@to.rushpc> <1991Feb23.170142.538@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <1991Feb23.170142.538@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes: > That is because it SHOULD be possible to do such very common things > as non-echo reading or reading single characters without terminating > carriage returns. Even on operating systems that don't support such operations? > We should be discussing how to put this into the > next standardized version of the language. It SHOULD have been in the > present version. No, it should be in an O/S independent extension library, somewhere between X3J11 and 1003.1. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"