From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: getchar()
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:28:21 -0700
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Inkel AT sion DOT com wrote:

> I'm reading K&R and, in the example 1.5 I have to use gecthar(), which
> should return _the pressed character_, and, redirect it to the screen
> with putchar(). Everything works fine except getchar, which only
> returns
> me the _single or multiple character stream_ I'm writing when I press
> <\n>. Why?

It's because stdin is buffered.

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