guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (01/17/89)
>On UNIX - cbreak mode. Characters are passed to the buffer immediately >(no newline needed) and can be read with getc() or similar. ... >Nothing is echoed to the terminal, so you have to do this explicitly (I >think). Incorrect. Turning echoing off and turning canonicalization off are two separate operations on all versions of UNIX I know of; in practice, most programs that turn canonicalization off also turn echoing off and do the echoing themselves, but that's not required.