On Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:03:01 EST Kent Fiala <[log in to unmask]> said: >That's not true, such a capability has been provided by CMS Session >Services since VM/SP Release 5. Well, I've never had the patience to learn the CMS fullscreen stuff. Anyway, if you're willing to write 89 lines of code to hide a password you can do it even without release 5, using XEDIT and SET RESERVED. What I meant is that I don't know of any standard command that does a LINERD TYPE=INVISIBLE (I'm still at CMS8, so this might have been remedied since then). When I wrote LSVPUT in 1986, I thought of just making one, but everyone seemed to have DIRMAINT and it seemed simpler for the users not to require EXEC + MODULE. I also figured IBM would eventually provide the capability. I hadn't yet learned that, if something makes sense, IBM is bound to avoid doing it like the plague ;-) Eric