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From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
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Subject: Re: no-echo input
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Date: 30 May 90 13:58:09 GMT
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In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes:
>I asked this a while ago but apparently it didn't get transmitted upstream.
>
>Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under:
>
>	(1) MS-Windows
>	(2) PM
>
>and if so, how?
>
I know <0 about programming for (1) or (2), but if you don't have a no-echo
option on input, you can set the foreground and background colors the same.
This is a trick I started using on CP/M 80 machines!




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