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  "Mark R. Ludwig" <mrl@UAI.COM> asks:
>   I am looking for an easier way to interact with a TSO user from a
>   program than using the PUTLINE, GETLINE, PUTGET, TPUT, TGET, or TPG
>   MACROs which IBM supplies.  My requirement is to be able to issue a
>   prompt on a line and have the user enter the response on the same
>   line.  Does the C environment support the Unix semantics, such that I
>   could have code like:
>
>           printf("...");  /* No \n at the end of the string */
>           gets(...);
>

I had this problem in PL/I and wrote a trivial routine which uses
TPUT to write the prompt without advancing to a new line and TGET
to read the reply, with some additional code to handle PL/I string
variables.

I don't see why this idea couldn't be adapted to C in the form of
'cputs()' and 'cgets()' functions ala Turbo-C if it's not already
available.

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