[plug] C codeing .... a question.

[Steve Baker]

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> Its the telling the terminal to "-echo" && "echo" I'm having troubles with ...
> I'm sure I can do it with ncurses BUT I'd like to avoid that if at all
> possible.
> 
> I'd took a stab in the dark and looked in to ioctl ... But I couldn't find
> much info ... 
> 

you can use the system call in C (not really the most efficient option, 
but very simple)
	system ("stty -echo");

or have a look at the termios system call
	$ man termios

bakes
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