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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Echoing chars and input functions
Message-ID: <2179@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 20:39:40 GMT
References: <8808160751.aa03016@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <5940003@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <5940003@hpcupt1.HP.COM>, williamo@hpcupt1.HP.COM (William O'Saughnessy) writes:
> 
> OK, what is the proper and portable way to get a character from stdin
> without having it echoed to the screen?!!!!
> 
> Basic may have C beat here it defines the way with INKEY but there 
> appears to be no machine independent way of doing it in C!

  Yeah, but there appears to be no machine independent way of doing
  BASIC(K)...
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