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NAME

       inch,  winch,  mvinch,  mvwinch - get a character and attributes from a
       curses window

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>

       chtype inch(void);
       chtype winch(WINDOW *win);
       chtype mvinch(int y, int x);
       chtype mvwinch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

DESCRIPTION

       These routines return the character, of type  chtype,  at  the  current
       position  in  the  named  window.   If  any attributes are set for that
       position, their values are OR’ed into the  value  returned.   Constants
       defined  in <curses.h> can be used with the & (logical AND) operator to
       extract the character or attributes alone.

   Attributes
       The following bit-masks may  be  AND-ed  with  characters  returned  by
       winch.

       A_CHARTEXT     Bit-mask to extract character
       A_ATTRIBUTES   Bit-mask to extract attributes
       A_COLOR        Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information

NOTES

       Note that all of these routines may be macros.

PORTABILITY

       These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.

SEE ALSO

       ncurses(3NCURSES).

       Comparable  functions  in  the  wide-character  (ncursesw)  library are
       described in in_wch(3NCURSES).

                                                                inch(3NCURSES)