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From: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: no echo?
Summary: portable way to turn echo off under unix
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <173@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 10:37:03 GMT
References: <128@dcrbg1.UUCP>
Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Neth.
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In article <128@dcrbg1.UUCP>, bcf2303@dcrbg1.UUCP (Wing Chow) writes:
> 
>       can you tell me how to avoid 'echoing' back to the user what he/she
> is typing in?
> 
>     thanks again for any help as i am new to unix and c.

Questions of this nature often show up in the news group comp.unix.questions.

Try system("stty -echo"); it should work on all unixes, tho it not
very efficiently. Try `man tty' for a more efficient implementation.