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From: alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
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Date: 22 Aug 88 19:53:13 GMT
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I have always thought that this was an omission in the stdio I/O library.
If turning echo on and off was defined as part of fread, fwrite, printf, ...
then there would be no problem.  As it is now you kind of take your chances
with various version of UNIX, and non UNIX systems are hopeless (as far as
portability that is).

It is to late to get this into the ANSI-C standard I guess.
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