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"Gary Sherman" <gsherman@infonow.com> writes:
> I am using xemacs 20.4 and when I log in to some of our systems I wish to
> hide my password as I type.  Is there a way to do this?  I have searched
> (maybe not good enough) the web and the help files for an answer and was
> unable to find one.

This list is dedicated to GNU Emacs, in GNU Emacs you can use the
function `read-passwd', see the GNU Emacs Lisp manual for more
information.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt