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- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: How to read without echo.
- Message-ID: <C0CCF3.2Mw@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <1i9pi5INN972@taloa.unice.fr>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:54:39 GMT
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- vyskocil@taloa.unice.fr (Vyskocyl) writes:
-
- >I only want to read a word on the keyboard without any
- >print on the screen. I mean, I want someone to answer
- >a question on his keyboard without any echo of what he
- >is typing. It will end just after he pressed 'return'.
-
- You'll have to find the operating system specific call to turn
- off echo for the keyboard. C does not have a built in routine
- to do that, but your operating system (you don't say what
- environment you're running under) probably does.
-
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- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
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