Brian,
IIRC its an FCONTROL call, not an esc sequence here. It's the system echoing
typed chars or not that you want to control, nothing to do with the terminal
itself.
here's C code for OFF
 
    in = FOPEN("$STDIN",0246,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0L,0,0,1);
    if ( in <= 0 )
         QUIT(99);
    FCONTROL(in,13,&x);

and echo on

  in = FOPEN("$STDIN",0246,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0L,0,0,1);
  if ( in <= 0 )
      QUIT(99);
  FCONTROL(in,12,&x);

or you might try issuing commands

SET ECHO=OFF

and

SET ECHO=ON

which seems to work for me.

jp

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Brian Donaldson
Sent: Friday, 20 July 2007 8:09 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] Cobol Program:Turn ECHO ON/OFF

I am trying to figure out how to turn echo on/off in a Cobol program 
that is prompting for passwords.

This is not a Vplus app. I need to user the HP escape sequences so
that the entered values are *not* displaying on the screen.

I was using the escape sequence %33&k1L to turn local echo off
and then %33&k0L to turn it back on.

This escape sequence isn't doing what I was hoping it would do.
Instead of blanking out the entered values it is actually doubling
the character values entered (example: pass=magic is being displayed as
mmaaggiicc)

Plugging in the "SET ECHO=ON/OFF" command is not what I want to do.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA,
Brian Donaldson.

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