Re: Core getch Hack

• Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 16:37:28 PDT
• From:
  Justin C Harris <jch1134@jackson.freenet.org>
• Cc: Mike Carns <mcarns@crl.com>, Moo Cows <moo-cows@parc.xerox.com>
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• In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960509232005.00693f64@pop.kaiwan.com>

On Thu, 9 May 1996 slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:

> At 03:51 PM 5/9/96 PDT, Mike Carns wrote:
> >Would it be possible to create a new builitin verb that called getch to 
> >get characters from the user, thus not echoing things like passwords?  
> >I've been looking at the code and their doesn't seem to be a definite 
> >place where it calls a form of scanf to get input, so I can't find the 
> >place to get the basic routine for such a verb.
> >
> >Later,
> >Mcarns

> >
> try set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 1) I don't know if that'll

actually it's ;set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 0) to stop the
echoing of characters, then ;set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 1)
to turn echoing back on.

> work, because echoing characters is mostly a client thing, not a in-moo
> thing, however telnet clients should respond to these kinds of things from
> the server, if a person is telnetting directly in it'll work, but not
> necessarily with some clients.
> 
> 
				Justin Harris

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