using getch() in gcc

[FuzZy2006]

Can you suggest me something similar to the getch() function in c++ that I can use in gcc?

[sweemeng]

there is something similar under the ncurse library. go check it out.

[FuzZy2006]

i did sudo aptitude install ncurses. in a ncurses tutorials it says that I should use gcc -lncurses program.cpp to run the program. when i put #include<ncurses.h> in the program, it still says that it doesn't find ncurses. ](*,)

[engineer]

you need the ncurses-dev package.
it contains the header files, you need

[Horsman]

I'm pretty sure you just want something like:

#include <iostream>
main(){
char c; // new char c
std::cin >> c; // read one char from the standard input stream
std::cout << c << std::endl; // write char c to standard output stream
}