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In article <1992Aug24.203004.2629@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <5s-n5j.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>>I'm trying to use getch() in C Set/2 to read from the keyboard with no
>>echo. Link386 reports getch() not found.
>
>According to the Unix box I have here, you should use getchar().
>That's in <stdio.h>.  The getch() function is a curses function and is
>located in <cursesX.h>, a header/library that probably isn't available
>for OS/2 yet, and certainly doesn't ship with C Set/2.
>
>I getch() is a common language extension, but it isn't ANSI.  So
>there's no gurantee that it should exist.  Just because Microsoft and
>Borland used it, doesn't mean that everyone does.  (IBM's old C/2
>compiler was MS-C repackaged)

A correction to myself:  C-Set/2 does indeed have getch().  It is
located in the <conio.h> header, just like it is under Microsoft C.
Sorry for the confusion.  I assumed that since you used it before in a
DOS compiler, that you had already included <conio.h>.

Note that <conio.h> is non-ANSI, and shouldn't be used if you want
your code to be completely portable.
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