From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-10-21T22:57:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing a backspace

Hi,

At Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:11:24 +0900,
ruby talk wrote in [ruby-talk:117254]:
> Any Help would be good. I also tried \b . I am running windows  i am
> using a bat file but i also tried rde it just prints the squares

If you want to hide the input by user, this may help you:

  http://nokada.jin.gr.jp/ruby/io-console.tar.bz2

Usage:

  require 'io/console'
  p STDIN.noecho {STDIN.gets}

-- 
Nobu Nakada