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In article <1036@spocm2.UUCP> lhv@spocm2.UUCP (Leo Vermeulen) writes:
>
>I have the following problem: I'm trying to write a C-program, using
>Microsoft-C 5.1, that reads a character string from the keyboard and
>assigns it to an character array. Since this string is supposed to be
>a password, I do not want it echoed to the display.

As others have mentioned in reply, the getch() function provided with
both MSC and Turdo C is probably the easiest solution.  MSC provides
a library of console routines when you include conio.h.  I was not
happy with these for two reasons.  First, if a user redirects stdin
and/or stdout when invoking your program, some of the MSC conio
routines are affected and others are not.  For example, the cprintf()
function writes to stdout just like printf() does!  This has to be
considered a bug -- why else would there be two different functions?!
The other problem is that the output of the kbhit() function is not
completely defined in the documentation and could be more useful if
it were more complete.  Yes, kbhit() is inherently PC-specific and
nonportable.

I few years ago, circa MSC 3.x, I rewrote the conio library to solve
these problems.  It is now in the public domain and works for both
MSC and Turdo C.  I submitted it to the C User's Group, and someone
seems to have uploaded it to SIMTEL as PD1:<MSDOS.C>CONIO.ARC.  It
is written in ASM and includes source.

Standard disclaimers and all that.