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From: junki@lut.fi (Juha Nurmela)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Reading a keystroke w/o echo
Message-ID: <1991May23.184302.13918@lut.fi>
Date: 23 May 91 18:43:02 GMT
References: <990007@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Sender: Juha Nurmela
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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Randy Azarian writes:

>I need to accept a user password (that won't echo to the screen).  So what I 
>am looking for is an ANSI-C routine that will accept a keystroke without 
>echoing it to the screen.
>
>Does anyone know of such a function or a way to fool stdin/stdout to 
>accomplish the same thing?

Simple solution... Portable ?

puts("Please dim Your monitor with knob called brightness.");
puts("Then key Your passwd terminating with ENTER and readjust the knob");
gets(password);
puts("\n\n\n\n ...50 times ... \n");

juha nurmela

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