I have noticed when i use tintin++ to connect to my mud the first entrance of a password for a new character is not invisible and it puts an extra line before "Reenter password". When i connect with telnet it works fine. On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Billy H. Chan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Rasmus 'Con' Ronlev wrote: > > > > Well, this question might be extremely simple, but even though I've been > > trying to find the reason why the password is displayed, when a new char > > is asked to 'Give a new password for CHAR :'. > > In interpreter.c under CON_NAME_CONFRM it does that echo_off(d) thing, > > that SHOULD make the entering of the password invisible, but both in my > > modified bpl8, and the unmodified bpl11 it displays the password. > > What dazzles me is, that when you are asked to 'reenter' the password it > > is correctly hidden... > > I recently ran across this problem with a problem player of mine (ok, I think > he's a problem player) and did not put much thought into it other than: > "Oh, your terminal emulation is not receiving the echo_off correctly > probably because of lag time (or packets being dropped) between the site and > your site." > > I'm prretty sure that's close enough to the truth because no one else has > come across this problem (except Rasmus now) so unless Rasmus is the same > problem player (hehe), it might just be line-latency > -- Billy H. Chan bhchan@po.eecs.berkeley.edu bhchan@csua.berkeley.edu > CogSci/CompSci http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~bhchan ResumeInside > >
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