Emulating getch()?

[xuftugulus]

From the ncurses programmers guide:

One-character-a-time. To disable the buffering of typed characters by the TTY driver and get a character-at-a-time input, you need to call

cbreak();

The question is: How do you achieve the same functionality without reverting to non portable code? I tried:

setbuf(stdin, NULL);

But still i couldn't disable the character buffering imposed by the system on standard keyboard input.
Basically ncurses is a fine library, and can be used easily to create and run text applications, but what about a purely ANSI C approach?

[Tommo]

Link

[xuftugulus]

Thanks that fully answered my question.
I almost re-implemented it by digging in the ncurses sources, and the cbreak() call.
And i am glad to know that such matters such as keyboards and screens are not standard

[vart]

And i am glad to know that such matters such as keyboards and screens are not standard

They are not made standard because C was intendet to work on platforms that may not have any keyboard or screen

[Prelude]

>setbuf(stdin, NULL);
For future reference, the reason this doesn't work is because the stdio buffering mechanism is strictly for performance. Changing the buffering doesn't change the behavior of I/O.