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Anthony wrote:
> 
> What construction should I use instead of getch() (just to wait
> for keypress) to make code portable?

You can wait for an ENTER (cr) keypress, with something like:

   int flushln(FILE *f)
   {
      int ch;

      while ((EOF != (ch = getc(f)) && ('\n' != ch)) continue;
      return ch;
   } /* flushln */

which is capable of detecting EOF.

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