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From: schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Password Entry Routines (Re: MS-DOS call to read without echo)
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Date: 7 Feb 90 20:45:38 GMT
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In article <V&5S`+@rpi.edu> mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
| 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.  

I don't know about MSC, but Borland's Turbo C 2.0 has a getpass routine
that takes a pointer to a prompt and returns the characters entered without
echoing those characters to the screen.

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Rick (schaut@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)

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