From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and UNIX-gcc
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:06:32 +0100
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Ville Lundberg wrote:
> 
> I made a couple small programs at home on my PC and wanted them on my
> UNIX-account as well, but when I compiled them with the UNIX gcc, there
> were some errors. Why differs the UNIX so much from DJGPP? My programs
> were really simple, containing strcpy(), conio.h, getch() etc. (it was
> about those the gcc complained about). Some of my programs worked well.
>    My program asks for a password and I need a getchar-function that
> does not echo to screen. How do I do this on UNIX? Do anyone know where
> to find a manual to the UNIX gcc on the net, or a comparison between
> DJGPP and gcc?
A portability section on libc is in the works, but that won't help you
right now...
strcpy(), getch() should work on UNIX systems, conio.h is not
there. getpass() from stdlib is what you are looking for. 
So what you'd do is omething like:

  char *pwd;
  pwd = getpass("Enter password:");

If your UNIX gcc is installed correctly, 
info libc alpha
should give you information about the specific libc on that
system. Unless you use AIX, where "info" is a brain dead help
data base for sysops. Then try /usr/local/bin/info or alikes.
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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