Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
Message-ID: <1988Aug23.164600.26614@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <371@marob.MASA.COM> <225800052@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <65197@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 88 16:46:00 GMT

In article <65197@sun.uucp> alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) writes:
>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, ...
>
>It is to late to get this into the ANSI-C standard I guess.

Much too late.  But I believe POSIX's latest revision has included a set
of terminal-control functions that look plausible.
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