From: Endlisnis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Source Code Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:29:33 -0400 Organization: BrunNet Lines: 21 Message-ID: <373B605D.BC323155@unb.ca> References: <373e1fb8 DOT 4801004 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftnts3c15.brunnet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > El día Wed, 12 May 1999 17:23:59 EDT, SAMSCOTTB AT aol DOT com escribió: > >how would i disguise/encode things to the screen, such as when the user types > >a it would show up a * or something? > Use getpass() That just prints nothing, it doesn't prints '*'s. You can use getch() to get individual characters and then print a "*" after each character is input (watch for backspace though). -- (\/) Endlisnis (\/) s257m AT unb DOT ca Endlisnis AT HotMail DOT com ICQ: 32959047