From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Echo *'s to screen?
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:02:52 GMT
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:28:42 -0500, "Chris Policicchio"
<chrisp AT stargate DOT net> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a way to echo back to the screen *'s instead of what the
>user is typing?  You know, for passwords, etc?

There's a way to do it with conio (getch() to read, gotoxy() to move
the cursor, and putch()/cprintf() to put the *'s) and also a way to do
it with portable curses.
  C:\>info libc func conio