Re: Terminal control on Windows NT

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Nigel Wetters wrote:

> use POSIX qw(:termios_h);
> $term = POSIX::Termios->new;
> $term->getattr(fileno(STDIN));
> # do some terminal manipulation here
>
> However, I get the error message on Windows NT:
>
> POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecure
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is there _any_ way to take user input (including control sequences
> such as ^C) from Windows, and not have that input echo'd to the
> screen?
>
> 2. Is it possible to do this in a platform-independent manner?

Your going to have trouble doing that with the command-shell, most
definitely.  As many others have suggested, you will have to move to
CygWin (or Unix altogether) to use the POSIX based modules.

-- Brett
   http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
-- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS

RE: Terminal control on Windows NT

[John Edwards]

use Term::ReadKey;

print "Please enter password: ";
ReadMode('noecho');
$password = ReadLine(0);
ReadMode('restore');
chomp ($password);
print "\n";

print "$password\n";

-Original Message-
From: Nigel Wetters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 June 2001 16:16
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Terminal control on Windows NT


I want to do this:

use POSIX qw(:termios_h);
$term = POSIX::Termios->new;
$term->getattr(fileno(STDIN));
# do some terminal manipulation here

However, I get the error message on Windows NT:

POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecure

I have two questions:

1. Is there _any_ way to take user input (including control sequences such
as ^C) from Windows, and not have that input echo'd to the screen?

2. Is it possible to do this in a platform-independent manner?

--nigel




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