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r0ssar00

Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:37 am


help!, im tryingtomakepassword

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i need some help.  my dilemma is this, I am making a dos simulation and i am making a login screen, one problem, when I run it, the password characteres echo onto the screen, I need either no characters echoed or stars echoed, can anyone help?


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Dan

Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:08 pm



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setscreen ( "noecho" ) will make it so no input is shown on the screen. To do the starts thing you whold have to use noecho and getch and every time a key is hit put a start on the screen


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Tony

Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:22 pm



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this has been done numerous [url=http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=3296]times


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r0ssar00

Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:54 am



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thanks, i thought noecho was something i could use, but only thought of it today before i saw your post