Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
Message-ID: <1988Aug23.164855.26679@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <371@marob.MASA.COM> <225800052@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <65197@sun.uucp> <302@quintus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 88 16:48:55 GMT

In article <302@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>    ... if you want to control features like echoing you
>    should probably be using Curses...

Urk.  No!  Control of echoing and such is fairly nicely done in Curses,
but there is too much other baggage involved.  What you should be using, as
soon as it becomes available, is the POSIX set of terminal-control functions
(unless it's changed again, POSIX terminal control is now done by a bunch of
little functions rather than by an ioctl-style one-big-struct interface).
-- 
Intel CPUs are not defective,  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
they just act that way.        | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
