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JRS:  In article <8ro05r$64a$1@gxsn.com> of Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:05:56
crossposted to borland.public.turbopascal,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-
iso,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.misc, Craig Hennessey
<craig@craighennessey.co.uk> wrote:

>i need to write a password protection screen into my a-level project. what i
>need to know is how do i ask for a password, and let the user type the
>password in, without displaying what the user is typing in? i have seen this
>done somewhere, but i cant remember where! ive checked the FAQs and a couple
>of user guides, but can find nothing on the subject, maybe ive missed it?
>i think i can cope with the rest of this password thing, apart from maybe
>encryption! but i think as far as a-level projects go, that can wait for
>another day!

You have posted to far too many newsgroups.

borland.* groups ask for no cross-posting, and you are using an
incorrect server.  Use forums.borland.com, etc., for news:borland.*.
NGs re-ordered.

You have not specified which dialect of Pascal you are using, and you
have posted to three non-overlapping groups in comp.*; PFOWYADBYDI.

You appear to have been rather ineffective at checking the FAQs, since
this question is answered in TSFAQP #38 (which FAQ, IIRC, you have
already been advised to study & keep a copy of), and can be found there
by a search for "password".

The solution in TSFAQP is far better than any colour-changing one; with
those, the password may be disclosed later by "screen-scraping" unless
it is over-written or scrolled off.

My http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-extn.htm includes a way of
performing a character read without using ReadKey or Crt.  Extension to
displaying stars is easy enough, if the display supports #8 which I
think it will.


FU clpb only.
 
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