Where is the conio h header file on Linux Why can t I find conio h

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Possible Duplicate    How to implement getch   function of C in Linux        What is the equivalent Linux version of the conio h header file from MS-DOS   Is there a way to replace its functionality  e g  getch       I m using gcc and the text editor Geany to compile C code

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That is because is does not exist  since it is bounded to Windows   Use the standard functions from  lt stdio h gt  instead  such as getc  The suggested ncurses library is good if you want to write console-based GUIs  but I don t think it is what you want

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conio h is a C header file used in old MS-DOS compilers to create text user interfaces  Compilers that targeted non-DOS operating systems  such as Linux  Win32 and OS 2  provided different implementations of these functions   The  include  lt curses h gt  will give you almost all the functionalities that was provided in conio h  nucurses need to be installed at the first place  In deb based Distros use   sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev  And in rpm based distros use   sudo yum install ncurses-devel ncurses  For getch   class of functions  you can try this

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A popular Linux library which has similar functionality would be ncurses

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The original conio h was implemented by Borland  so its not a part of the C Standard Library nor is defined by POSIX   But here is an implementation for Linux that uses ncurses to do the job

[c] Where is the <conio.h> header file on Linux? Why can't I find <conio.h>?

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