Reading a keystroke w/o echo

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <990007 at hpcc01.HP.COM> azarian at hpcc01.HP.COM (Randy Azarian) writes:
>I am trying to write some C code that will be able to be portable to a number
>of platforms (Unix, MVS, DOS, MPE) without modification of any kind.  ...
>I need to accept a user password (that won't echo to the screen).

But that's a contradictory set of requirements.
Isn't this is the FAQ yet?