.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" This module is believed to contain source code proprietary to AT&T. .\" Use and redistribution is subject to the Berkeley Software License .\" Agreement and your Software Agreement with AT&T (Western Electric). .\" .\" @(#)getc.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" .TH GETC 3F "June 5, 1993" .UC 5 .SH NAME getc, fgetc \- get a character from a logical unit .SH SYNOPSIS .B integer function getc (char) .br .B character char .sp 1 .B integer function fgetc (lunit, char) .br .B character char .SH DESCRIPTION These routines return the next character from a file associated with a fortran logical unit, bypassing normal fortran I/O. .I Getc reads from logical unit 5, normally connected to the control terminal input. .PP The value of each function is a system status code. Zero indicates no error occurred on the read; \-1 indicates end of file was detected. A positive value will be either a UNIX system error code or an f77 I/O error code. See perror(3F). .SH FILES .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a .el /usr/lib/libU77.a .SH "SEE ALSO" getc(3S), intro(2), perror(3F)