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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mips!mips!rtech!ingres!seg
  2. From: seg@Ingres.COM (scott e garfinkle)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: C Set/2 Problem with getch()
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug26.222147.13865@pony.Ingres.COM>
  6. Date: 26 Aug 92 22:21:47 GMT
  7. References: <5s-n5j.feustel@netcom.com> <1992Aug24.203004.2629@njitgw.njit.edu>
  8. Organization: Garfinkle Consulting
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  11. In article <1992Aug24.203004.2629@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  12. >According to the Unix box I have here, you should use getchar().
  13. >That's in <stdio.h>.  The getch() function is a curses function and is
  14. >located in <cursesX.h>, a header/library that probably isn't available
  15. >for OS/2 yet, and certainly doesn't ship with C Set/2.
  16. IBM C Set/2 does, in fact, have getch(), as the original poster intimated.
  17. He just  is having some funny problem installing the migration libraries,
  18. wherein getch resides.
  19.  
  20. I usually wait to post until I realy know what I'm talking about.
  21.     -Scott E. Garfinkle
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