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From: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
Message-ID: <97@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jan 89 17:13:36 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <225800107@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
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In article <225800107@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>This implies that it does not wait for input, but rather returns at once.
>If there is something there, the
 

On UNIX - cbreak mode. Characters are passed to the buffer immediately
(no newline needed) and can be read with getc() or similar.

To go into cbreak mode you use one of the ioctl() calls.

Nothing is echoed to the terminal, so you have to do this explicitly (I 
think).

- RC

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