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Fantastic! Thanks Chad! Get_Immediate did the trick nicely.

Chad Robert Meiners <meinersc@cse.msu.edu> wrote in message
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> I take it that you don't want to write your own Get_Line routine.  If that
> is acceptable though, try using Get_Immediate I believe that it doesn't
> echo the keystroke.  Otherwise use the NT_Console package to set the
> foreground color equal to the background color.  The only problem with
> that is it would still be possible to cut and paste the password off of
> the screen, but if you are using NT_Console you can easy write blanks over
> the password.