c language function looking like getch() on DOS

[Edouard Callens]

Does anybody know how to get a single char from terminal without
echo and before Newline char is entered?

On MS-DOS (oldies), there was a function getch() usually in conio.h
that did this purpose.

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[Mark Adams]

In C there is a function called getc()

[F. Michael Orr]

Mark Adams wrote:

However, getc() does not allow the character at a time input the original
poster wanted; it does buffered I/O. I haven't thought too much about
this one, but I bet it would be ugly. I think the terminal would have to
be put into "raw" mode with a series of modifications via tcsetattr(),
and then you'd have to read() a single byte. It isn't as easy as the
getch() was, I'm afraid.

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[Ken Treimann]

Edouard Callens wrote:

> Does anybody know how to get a single char from terminal without
> echo and before Newline char is entered?
>
> On MS-DOS (oldies), there was a function getch() usually in conio.h
> that did this purpose.
>
> Please reply at edouard...@hotmail.com

Use the "curses" library (man curses). Don't ask me how to use it,
I just know that that's what you use.

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