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From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Echoing chars and input functions
Message-ID: <1342@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 14:04:56 GMT
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Organization: SCADA
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What lightspeed 'C' should have done is:

	(1) Make getchar() echo by default, using the same routines
	    that fread() and gets() use, and...

	(2) Provide an emulation of ioctl() or sgtty().

Manx does this, at least on the Amiga.

Even better would have been to provide a pseudo-device that was a terminal
window, like most windowing systems support (xterm, CON:, whatever Apollo
uses, MS/DOS windows in Windows, ...).
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"     sugar.uu.net!ficc!peter.