Echoing chars and input functions

[Michael Burgett]

In article <2821 at boulder.Colorado.EDU> swarbric at tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
>>>What, then, is the portable way to input a character from standard input,
>>>echoing the character to the screen when necessary?
>>
>>We already answered that!  It's
>>	c = getchar();
>
>I could have sworn someone said their compiler did not echo the character when
>they used this.  Did I misunderstand someone, or is their compiler just
>non-conformant (broken)?

I think the point is that terminal echo is controlled by the operating system
and NOT by the c library function used to get the character.

		mike burgett

					burgett!adobe.decwrl.dec.com