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From: mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS call to read without echo
Message-ID: <V&5S`+@rpi.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 07:38:19 GMT
References: <1036@spocm2.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre)
Organization: Rensselaer Instipoly Technitute
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In article <1036@spocm2.UUCP> lhv@spocm2.UUCP (Leo Vermeulen) writes:
>
>I have the following problem: I'm trying to write a C-program, using
>Microsoft-C 5.1, that reads a character string from the keyboard and
>assigns it to an character array. Since this string is supposed to be
>a password, I do not want it echoed to the display.
>
>Any responses, by e-mail, would be greatly appreciated.
>

I sent Leo a response by email, but in case anyone else is wondering
about this:  MSC5.1 has a function called getch(), which gets a
character from the console without echo.  

					-Dave


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