Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Simple question.
Message-ID: <1991May1.170311.18988@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 17:03:11 GMT
References: <6131@gara.une.oz.au> <24528@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <24528@well.sf.ca.us> ron@well.sf.ca.us (Ronald Hayden) writes:
>> Could someone please tell me if it is possible to read a string with
>> scanf() and not have the string printed on the screen.
>
>scanf() will always echo the characters, but getchar() won't...

Wrong; on any sane system, scanf() and getchar() use precisely the same
machinery for getting characters, and both normally echo them.

Note:  "on any sane system".  The fact is, this is an operating-system
question, not a C question.  C provides no standard way to do it.  This
question should be asked in some operating-system-specific group, like
comp.os.msdos.programmer.  Looking at comp.lang.c's Frequently Asked
Questions list might also be fruitful, since this is an FAQ.
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And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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