On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:09:57 +0000 "Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > > I've written a little Haskell program to get information from a > > MySQL database (great thanks to anybody reading this who works on > > HSQL, by the way) but I want to keep the user's password concealed, > > obviously. Currently I prompt for it from the terminal, but the > > problem is that it's echoed just like all other input. I would > > like to disable input echo when asking for the password, but I'm > > not sure how. I notice there's a System.POSIX.Terminal module, but > > I have no idea how to use it, or whether it will do what I want. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=echo > > A quick Hoogle search for echo suggests hSetEcho, so perhaps hSetEcho > stdin False would work. Oh my, I completely forgot about Hoogle and missed those obvious functions. That's it exactly. Thanks very much for the pointers! -- Taylor Venable [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://real.metasyntax.net:2357/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe