Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:57:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Echo *'s to screen?
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Chris Policicchio 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 are library functions getpass and getlongpass for that.  They
don't echo anything, though.