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[adc++]

Hi all ,
I program under g++ in linux but it seems it doesn't have conio.h and I
want to use getch() and putch()in my program , Can you tell me what I
must do?
thanks

[Richard Heathfield]

adc++ said:

Hi all ,
I program under g++ in linux but it seems it doesn't have conio.h
Right. conio.h is not part of the C language; it is an extension provided by
some MS-DOS (and, later, Windows) implementations.
and I
want to use getch() and putch()in my program , Can you tell me what I
must do?

putch() is easy:

int putch(int ch)
{
int e = putchar(ch);
fflush(stdout);
return e;
}

getch() is rather harder. Either put your terminal into raw mode, or bite
the bullet and learn the ncurses library.

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[Michael Brennan]

adc++ wrote:

Hi all ,
I program under g++ in linux but it seems it doesn't have conio.h and I
want to use getch() and putch()in my program , Can you tell me what I
must do?
thanks

Right, conio.h is not available on linux. It's nonstandard and this
newsgroup only deals with standard C. AFAIK there is no portable
way to implement these functions, so if you really need the same
functionality you can use some library that handles the low-level
terminal stuff for you, such as ncurses, which is offtopic here.

Also, if you program in C, you should use a C compiler. g++ is for
C++, use gcc instead.

/Michael

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Richard Heathfield wrote:

adc++ said:

Hi all ,
I program under g++ in linux but it seems it doesn't have conio.h

Right. conio.h is not part of the C language; it is an extension provided by
some MS-DOS (and, later, Windows) implementations.

<snip>

In addition to what Richard said, g++ is a C++ compiler *not* a C
compiler. We only deal with C here not C++.
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[Martin Ambuhl]

adc++ wrote:

Hi all ,
I program under g++ in linux but it seems it doesn't have conio.h and I
want to use getch() and putch()in my program , Can you tell me what I
must do?

Stop using getch() and putch().

If you want similar functionality, check, for example, the curses
(ncurses, etc.) family. Be warned:

1) The functionality of similar-looking or similarly-named functions is
not what you have grown to expect.

2) point (1) arises becauses your <conio.h> functions and those from
<curses.h> or <ncurses.h> are none of them standard. That means they
can do any damn thing your implementer chooses. The C standard is not
controlling.

3) point (2) means that discussions of these are about
implementation-specific details which are properly discussed in a
newsgroup (or mailing list, or technical support) for your
implementation. They do *not* belong in <news:comp.lang.c>.