Anyone out there know how to suppress a user's input for a variable in a batch file from displaying onscreen? Basically, I am writing a batch file that requires a user's password, and I do not want what they type to appear on screen. Even if I cannot supresss it, is there a way to mask it with "*******" instead?

Thanks for your help!

I don't think this can be done in a batch file as they only have very basic DOS commands, and nothing like this is done in DOS that I know of anyway.

Phurious --

Check out these two links:

1). http://home.comcast.net/~stewartb/getkv.html

2). http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/

Your looking for INPUT.COM in "Horst's PBats" link on the left part of the screen.

Let us know how it turns out.

Feroceles

WannaXP, Thanks for the info! It looks like it will do just what I was looking for.