Partial passwords

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> elestial.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:55 AM
> To: George; fp at casabellagallery.com; 'Walter Vaughan'
> Cc: 'filePro'
> Subject: RE: Partial passwords
> 
> 
> --- George <flowersoft at compuserve.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > inputpw will hide the characters
> > 
> 
> I know.  However, Walter originally said that he did not want 
> to use inputpw, and that he thought there may be a way to do 
> this with an edit.  I don't think there is a way to do this 
> with an edit.
> 
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> 
> Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and easiest 
> ways to generate filepro exports and imports.
> 
> 
OK, this isn't neat but should work.

1. use in 1 character input to get the password letters.  Pw(1,*), Keep
looping until a blank occurs.
2. build your password to a dummy field long enough to hold it -
pword=pword{pw
3. display another field di=di{"#" for each letter typed.
4. verify the password and then store it in a real field if wanted.
5. use a dummy field to display ##### for the password on a screen.

Why go through this exercise is one can use inputpw?

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting