[Info-vax] termios - library for VAX/VMS 7.3?
Holm Tiffe
holm at freibergnet.de
Wed Jun 1 05:27:34 EDT 2016
On 27.05.2016 00:59, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 5/26/16 3:42 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>
>> If you want the functionality without actual
>> sgtty/termio/termios compatibility, then plenty of programs
>> which accept passwords interactively have working
>> VMS-specific code for setting [no]echo which could be stolen.
>> For example, Info-ZIP UnZip and Zip (ttyio.c) and GnuPG
>> ([.vmslib]vms.c). (The GnuPG code may be more suggestive for
>> characteristics beyond [no]echo.)
>>
>> http://info-zip.org/
>> http://antinode.info/dec/sw/gnupg.html
>
> I've implemented a readpassphrase(), as well as a getpass() and
> incomplete but useful readline on top of that:
>
> <https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/blob/master/vms/getpass.c.
>
Ok..thanks guys, I'll look into that..
Regards,
Holm
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