Getch, whats the equivalent

wonderboy · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 71

I just started programming on linux, what is the equivalent for getch(), getche() and anything else that was in conio.h for DOS programming

Brandy · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:50 am Post subject:

Hi wonderboy.

conio.h is not a part of the ANSI standard and so does not appear on Linux.

ANSI I/O functions can be found in the stdio.h library: fgetc, fgets, getc, getchar, gets, ungetc are the functions to handle the input of characters and strings. There is a thread here that gives a nice example of using getchar.

Interestingly, getch() does exist in the ncurses.h library.

Ciao, Brandy
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