newbie question

[Craig Cowen]

I am going over a beginners book on ANSI C and it references a header
file conio.h and a function getche().
The function is suppose to get one character and force a return.
How can I use this with gcc or how can I get the same functionality.

uname -a
FreeBSD athlon 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE #14: Fri Nov 24
19:36:27 GMT

cc -v
sing builtin specs.
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

Thanks