Re: Quick Informix 4gl question

Posted in 1997

Art S. Kagel — Mon, 03 Nov 1997 18:41:47 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

pe@pre.datel-group.co.uk wrote: > > I'm in middle of writing a program which is asking for a username and > password with 4gl using a form. Can anybody think of a quick clever way > of displaying ****** when the user types the password instead of the > actual characters (like most password prompts do) Write a small 4GL callable "C" function to retrieve the characters in "RAW" mode as they are typed and output the '*' yourself. Art S. Kagel