To curse or not to curse

[Jules d'Entremont]

A friend of mine is converting some programs from Turbo Pascal 5.0 to
work in Unix C.  He's having difficulty translating a Turbo Pascal
function (getch ?) which reads in a character from the keyboard unechoed,
and without waiting for a carriage return.  I told him to use curses and
set cbreak() and noecho() modes.  He thinks he shouldn't have to invoke
curses for such a simple task.  Is there another way to do this?  What
is the best, most portable way to do it?

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