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to: Darin McBride
from: Christopher Butler
date: 1998-11-15 09:56:52
subject: getchar and EOF

-=[ Hi Darin ]=-

It was 18:59:04 13 Nov 98 in C_ECHO, when the peace was suddenly disturbed
by Darin screaming getchar and EOF at Adam Majer. This then followed:

 AM>>> while((c=getchar()) != '\x27')
 DM> getchar and getch are completely different beasts...  getchar()
 DM> will work with redirected input, getch won't.

Also, getchar is ANSI C, and getch is a non-standard extension. There is a
getch in most DOS compilers, and just to confuse things, the Curses
standard defines getch as well, but this is different from the DOS call.
Also, to use getch under UNIX, you would need to link with lib(n)curses.

Chris


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