Getch() in Linux

Does anyone know of a getch() equivalent that exists in linux?
I have just started doing some basic programming and am currently running Knoppix on CD.
So I'm not sure what kind of file library I have available.

Any help would be greatly appreciated;

GL

What programming language are you talking about? C/C++?

In my MSVC I can find

getc
getchar
_getch

getc and getch are standard library functions and should be found in any C/C++ implementation.

_getch is a platform implementation function (denoted by the _ at the start of the name), a function provide by the platform in question to support the rest of the c standard library.

The closest standard library equivilent to _getch is getchar.

Put the following text in to Gedit and save as getch.h
to use the function use mygetch()

works like a charm

/

#include <termios.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int mygetch(void)
{
struct termios oldt,
newt;
int ch;
tcgetattr( STDIN_FILENO, &oldt );
newt = oldt;
newt.c_lflag &= ~( ICANON | ECHO );
tcsetattr( STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &newt );
ch = getchar();
tcsetattr( STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &oldt );
return ch;
}


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