setting up password fields

[Jim Lambert]

<I was wondering if anyone has a better (newer) way of
setting up a regular field to accept a password entry
(i.e. put a '*' in place of each character). >

I know it's a dialog not a field but might this excerpt from the Trnscript
dictionary help?

"The ask password command displays a dialog box like the ask command, but
with the characters the user types displayed as asterisks (*) for privacy."

Jim Lambert