From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2754eda606e296d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-16 11:16:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: davidp@retype.net (David) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pass help Date: 16 Mar 2003 11:16:42 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.1.9.149 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1047842202 24751 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2003 19:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Mar 2003 19:16:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35391 Date: 2003-03-16T19:16:42+00:00 List-Id: Doing this under DOS/console by the way? davidp@retype.net (David) wrote in message news:... > How would I go about changing the text the user enters when being > prompted for the password (changing text to passchar's like > asterisks), but still be read what the user is actually typing.. would > it be working along with buffers or is there an simplier method? > > TIA