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From: james@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Making chars disappear
Message-ID: <8531@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Feb 91 17:15:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Edinburgh University
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Does anyone know of a way to prevent characters being echoed as they
are typed in?  Like when you log in, your password doesn't get echoed.
I have a nasty feeling this may involve sending control codes to the
terminal.

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  James Gillespie,     /~~~~~~~~\
 Edinburgh University /   @  @   \ "Oh wow.  What a bummer."
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