I'm using DJGPP and have set up the following code to read from the keyboard and then print to the screen:

int _c = getch();//from the keyboard
putch(_c); //to the screen
cout << _c;// outputs _c

When I do this it prints the correct character to the screen. However _c is output as the int value. I wish to concatenate the chars thus I need to covert the int values to chars to do this. How do I do this?

You cast them:
cout << (char) _c;