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Re: No getch() in 2.0???

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From: dave
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 00:45
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> Well, I finally got a C Set/2 program working that reads characters
> from the keyboard without echoing. The problem is that I could only do
> it by using the migration libraries. Is there NO getch() function in
> the standard C Set/2 libraries?

Not today.  Since Migration libraries was a bit of a foolish idea in the
first place, all the funtions in them will be moved into the standard
library in future versions.  You can feel comfortable using getch(), or
anything else you find in there.

dave

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Dave Mooney                                              dmm@vnet.ibm.com
 C Set/2 Development, IBM Canada Lab, 844 Don Mills Rd, Toronto, Ontario
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:45:58 EDT
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