Getchar w/wout echo

[Peter da Silva]

In article <627 at proxftl.UUCP>, bill at proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
> ever will, as there are important systems where turning off
> echoing is *not* possible since echoing is done by parts of the
> hardware that can't be affected by the system.

I haven't used IBM systems, but the batch terminal systems I'm familiar
with at least allow you to change the characters to black-on-black, which
is adequate for a password...
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