Chris Chadwick

Thanks, Doug - that makes sense. I'll check out those functions in conio. Cheers Chris

Thanks for your reply, Kai. I had already seen the page you linked to, when I was looking for an answer. It doesn't mention anything about echoing input to the output, though. I think I've just misunderstood how getchar() operates. I thought it was purely an input function, with putchar() being the output equivalent. Still wondering why backspace doesn't seem to be recognized by the code, though. Any idea? Thanks Chris

Hi I haven't done any C coding in many years, so am reading through my Kernighan & Ritchie book again, to fully re-aquaint myself with it. One exercise is to write a program using getchar() to get keyboard input, and print it to the screen/stdout, replacing all tab, space and backspace characters with their escape sequence representations. I can't seem to get the following code to behave as expected. Firstly, getchar() seems to be echoing input to the screen without me specifically outputting it...