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On 3/16/2005 at 4:22:12 AM, Vander wrote:

> Perhaps a bit off the swing topic, but I wonder if it is possible to
> obtain direct keyboard character/signal input from the console.
> System.in only reads lines of text and echoes all characters. For a
> commandline utility I need to perform password input, so to echo only
> "*" instead of the text. - Can somebody know a solution or can give me
> directions? Thanks!

There is nothing in Java that allows this level of control over console
input.  To do this with console input, you would need to use some sort of
native library.  An alternative approach would be to use a GUI console
window, such as the JConsole class that comes with BeanShell:

   http://www.beanshell.org/

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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