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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
Message-ID: <8371@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 Aug 88 16:29:17 GMT
References: <371@marob.MASA.COM> <225800052@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <65197@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <65197@sun.uucp> alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) writes:
>If turning echo on and off was defined as part of fread, fwrite, printf, ...
>then there would be no problem.

RONG.  Making applications control the environment they are run in would
be a massive mistake!