Re: characterreading in c

From: Chuck Dillon (cdillon_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 12/29/03


Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:17:28 -0600

Erik Paul wrote:
> I want to read characters from the keyboard, but without the user
> pressing the enter key. Under Windows I heard getche() or getch() do
> this job, but under UNIX these functions don't seem to exist. So I want
> to know whether anybody knows which function is used to do this under UNIX.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/ item 3.2.

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Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.


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