conio.h question

abk4523 · 11-30-2005, 07:47 AM

I copied conio.h from a site (doxygen possibly), to test. I tried using the getch() function with it but keep getting undefined function errors. I know I can use the getchar() function and stdio.h library to get around this, but I thought getch() was part of conio.h. Is this not true or did I get a bad copy? Just curious. Thanks for the input.

dmail · 11-30-2005, 07:52 AM

I may well be wrong, but I thought conio.h was a microsoft include?

bigearsbilly · 11-30-2005, 08:36 AM

conio.h is for MS only.
not part of C.

vivekr · 11-30-2005, 11:16 AM

As they said getch() and functions like kbhit() that belong to conio.h are implemented in function calls related to DOS and hence cannot be used in Linux environment.