Re: [OT] where is conio.h with getch()?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
> 2008/1/19, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In looking around after Kent's question on key presses I found getch()
> > and putch() and the manual (from 1986) says that they are in conio.h.
> >
> > But that's no longer around.
> >
> > That means getch() and putch() have gone away? In favor of what?
>
> Hello,
>
> as I know, conio.h does not belong to the C standard library. So you
> cannot compile a program with it in GNU/Linux or other flavor of Unix.
>
> Take a look to ncurses [1],
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

Thanks, Sergio. But using that version of getch() wanted all sorts of 
other ncurses routines. You couldn't just use getch().

Hugo