Re: Input a password from STDIN

2005-02-06 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:33:05PM +0800 Xiaofang Zhou wrote: > Anyone can help me in this?. When running > > $password = ; > > the password will show on the console windows as user > type in. Is it possible for perl to read from keyboard > directly, without echo to the console window? there is

Re: Input a password from STDIN

2005-02-06 Thread Randy W. Sims
Xiaofang Zhou wrote: > Anyone can help me in this?. When running > > $password = ; > > the password will show on the console windows as user > type in. Is it possible for perl to read from keyboard > directly, without echo to the console window? > perldoc -q password -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: RE: Input a password from STDIN

2005-02-06 Thread Xiaofang Zhou
I'm using active perl 5.6 on winxp, running perl in a DOS-like command windows. The User interfaces modules on cpan seems not designed for win32 platform. I tought about using TK to pop-up a gui dialog window. But don't know how to leave "MainLoop" and return to my script. Direct calling 'exit' on

RE: Input a password from STDIN

2005-02-06 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Xiaofang Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Anyone can help me in this?. When running : : $password = ; : : the password will show on the console windows as user : type in. Is it possible for perl to read from keyboard : directly, without echo to the console window? That depends on the console