------_ extPart_001_01C72C99.5619DC4E Content-Type: text/plain; charset so-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Firstly, I appologize if this question has already been answered but I could not figure out the correct way to word my search on google to find anything relevant. I am running Ruby 1.8.2-15 on windows XP. I used the one-click version. I am trying to write a script that will prompt a user for a password and not echo the characters back to screen. Is this possible in the dos command window? If so then please give me a reference else is there an alternative such as using TK? thank you, raymond ------_ extPart_001_01C72C99.5619DC4E--