Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
Message-ID: <1988Aug26.170448.23115@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <371@marob.MASA.COM> <225800052@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <65197@sun.uucp> <302@quintus.UUCP> <1988Aug23.164855.26679@utzoo.uucp> <309@quintus.UUCP> <65474@sun.uucp> <313@quintus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 88 17:04:48 GMT

In article <313@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>... post the sources to comp.sys.apple.mac or whatever it
>is called.  That's the way to produce a de facto standard, and that's how
>we'll get echo control in the next version of ANSI C.

If you propose this, the odds are very high that X3J11 will say "(a) this
is not a portable construct, since some operating systems cannot implement
it; (b) POSIX already does this" and reject it.

Admittedly, POSIX is not here yet... but *that's* the standardized interface
for such things that you should be trying to use.  I would expect to see
subsets of that interface made available in most non-Unix C implementations
as well.
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