Suggest you install and use cygwin including its perl package. It includes Term::Readkey and the other core packages. I just did a cygwin installation on win2k yesterday and it went smoothly. Note that emacs and midnight commander are the only default editors, but nano and vim are selectable as options.
-tristram -----Original Message----- From: Haim Ashkenazi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "stty -echo" replacement for windows John W. Krahn wrote: > perldoc -q password > > Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlfaq8.pod > How do I ask the user for a password? > > (This question has nothing to do with the web. See a > different FAQ for that.) > > There's an example of this in the crypt entry in the > perlfunc manpage). First, you put the terminal into "no > echo" mode, then just read the password normally. You may > do this with an old-style ioctl() function, POSIX terminal > control (see the POSIX manpage, and Chapter 7 of the > Camel), or a call to the stty program, with varying > degrees of portability. > > You can also do this for most systems using the > Term::ReadKey module from CPAN, which is easier to use and > in theory more portable. > > use Term::ReadKey; > > ReadMode('noecho'); > $password = ReadLine(0); thanx, I've seen this solution. the problem is that on activeperl (the perl I will use in windows, because of the application they have that generate a binary with interperter) they don't have Term::ReadKey as a ppm, and we don't have a compiler for windows to try and compile it ourselves. anyway someone told me that windows machines have an "echo off/on" command so I will try to run it and see if it works. thanx -- Haim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
