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From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
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Date: 26 Aug 88 14:14:41 GMT
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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, ...
: then there would be no problem.  As it is now you kind of take your chances
: with various version of UNIX, and non UNIX systems are hopeless (as far as
: portability that is).

It is remotely possible that requiring echoing could be put into
the standard as an "editorial change".  There is not a chance in
hell that control of echoing will.  I seriously doubt that it
ever will, as there are important systems where turning off
echoing is *not* possible since echoing is done by parts of the
hardware that can't be affected by the system.

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Bill
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