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From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Making chars disappear
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Date: 19 Feb 91 00:50:31 GMT
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In article <462@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>>In an article, castle.ed.ac.uk!james (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.
>
            well, i suppose you could use all that c garbage if you are writing
 a c-program, but if you just want to turn off the echo do a stty -echo from
 within the script (or wherever) and a stty echo to turn it back on.


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