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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
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Date: 16 Jan 89 19:21:56 GMT
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 >On UNIX - cbreak mode. Characters are passed to the buffer immediately
 >(no newline needed) and can be read with getc() or similar.

...

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

Incorrect.  Turning echoing off and turning canonicalization off are two
separate operations on all versions of UNIX I know of; in practice, most
programs that turn canonicalization off also turn echoing off and do the
echoing themselves, but that's not required.