Echoing chars and input functions

[David Geary]

In article <5940003 at hpcupt1.HP.COM>, williamo at hpcupt1.HP.COM (William O'Saughnessy) writes:
> 
> OK, what is the proper and portable way to get a character from stdin
> without having it echoed to the screen?!!!!
> 
> Basic may have C beat here it defines the way with INKEY but there 
> appears to be no machine independent way of doing it in C!

  Yeah, but there appears to be no machine independent way of doing
  BASIC(K)...
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