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to: Adam Majer
from: Darin McBride
date: 1998-11-13 18:59:04
subject: getchar and EOF

AM>> while((c=getchar()) != '\x27')

 > This is not.  (Try it - getchar() should never return ctrl-Z -
 > it'll return EOF instead!)

 AM> getch[e]() returns '\x27' I know that (at least under DOS and Windows).

getchar and getch are completely different beasts...  getchar() will work
with redirected input, getch won't.


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