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Subject: Re: Get
Date: 2000/07/11
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In article <8jsvkj$shl3@news.vtx.ch>,
  "Dutoit C�dric" <nospams.dutoitc@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Je cherche comment faire pour lire une phrase de l'utilisateur sans
echo sur
> l'�cran,
> sans utiliser de technique sp�cifique � une platforme...
>
> Do anyone know who to read a string from user without displaying it on
the
> screen, and without platform-defined tricks ?

Unfortunately, doing this requires "platform-defined" tricks
by definition.  Controling terminal echo always requires using
some OS specific API, that may even differ depending on your
specific hardware.

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