At 09:06 AM 10/3/97 -0400, Craig Proctor wrote:
>> I'm trying to implement a VPLUS screen to accept a password.
>> I can not seem to find HOW to prevent the password from echoing back to
>> the user as it is being entered.
>
and Joe geiser replied
>
>In FORMSPEC, when entering the specs for the field, specify a DType of "S"
>- which means Security.  This will suppress the echo.


The approach i prefer is to use a Ctrl/N before the field, and a Ctrl/O
after the field. This switches the terminal (or termulator) into line mode,
and presents a totally undecipherable set of glyphs on the screen. It is
probably not 100% secure (one method of hacking it comes to mind, which i
haven't tried, in 15 years of using the technique), but it WILL work on all
terminals, even those which lack support for the Security option.

Good luck,
TOny