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Re: no-echo input

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From: Matt SAETTLER
Date: Mon, 28 May 1990 22:41
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In article <102@bohra.cpg.oz> ejp@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Esmond Pitt) writes:
]I asked this a while ago but apparently it didn't get transmitted upstream.
]
]Is it possible to accept input without echo (e.g. password fields) under:
]
]	(1) MS-Windows
]	(2) PM
]
]and if so, how?
]
]Thanks for your help.

Windows 3.0 defines the edit control attribute ES_PASSWORD.  I believe
that this replace typed characters with '*' in the display.

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From: matts@microsoft.UUCP (Matt SAETTLER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: no-echo input
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Date: 28 May 90 22:41:47 GMT
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