I'm really starting to dislike stdio

["John T. Williams" <jtwilliams@vt.edu>]

I really appricated the help with the progress bar.

I have another problem

I am trying to read in a password from the stdin, but I don't want it to
display to the screen as the person types it in.
I either like to mock su, and take input w/o any output, or output a *  for
each typed character, and I cannot figure out how to get this to work

I've tried
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        read(1, &tmpch, 1);

        while(tmpch != '\n') {
                memset(prog, '*', stars);
                printf("\rPassword: %-20s ", prog );
                stars++;

                buff[loop] = tmpch;
                loop++;
                read(1, &tmpch, 1);
        }
        read(1, &tmpch, 1);

        while(tmpch != '\n') {
                memset(prog, '*', stars);
                printf("\rPassword: %-20s ", prog );
                stars++;

                buff[loop] = tmpch;
                loop++;
                read(1, &tmpch, 1);
        }
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I've tried

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tmpch = getchar();
while(tmpch != '\n') {
    memset(prog, '*', stars)
    printf("\rPassword: %-20s ", prog );
    stars++;

    buff[loop] = tmpch;
    loop++;
    tmpch = getchar();
}

and I tried getc from the curses library.
The problem with all of these is that they only actually do the read part
after I've hit the <enter> key.  I want it to process each character as it
is typed.  Anyone who has any ideas or can tell me a better way to read
characters w/o displaying it to the screen and I'd be greatful.