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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Making chars disappear
Message-ID: <889@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 05:04:09 GMT
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In article <8531@castle.ed.ac.uk> james@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Gillespie) writes:
>
>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.

I suspect that this is best done with an un-buffered read of the keyboard.
Unfortunately, there is no standard way to do this.

Even more so for any control code you might send, since that would be
terminal dependant.

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Dave Schaumann      | Is this question undecidable?
dave@cs.arizona.edu |