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- PASS
- A Turbo Pascal Password Program
- Version 3.1
-
- I call this PROTECTWARE in hopes it will give your system more security.
- Please copy this program freely.
- Call my RBBS for the latest at (203) 875-3647
-
- You should have recieved in an ARC file format a .COM, .PAS, and .DOC
- of PASS plus the file PASSINT.COM.
-
- Revisions from version 2.0 and 3.0:
- -SIREN.PAS has now been included in the main source code, no longer
- called in as an include file.
- -Most of the source code has been re-arranged for better running and
- readablity.
- -The file PASSINT.COM has been written to install a password in the
- file PASS.FIL. You do not need to change the password in the source
- code, in fact there is no provision for a source code based password.
- YOU MUST RUN PASSINT.COM BEFORE TRING PASS.COM.
- -Code has, of course, been added to load in the password from PASS.FIL.
- -The user cannot use Ctrl-Break to break out of the program(done with
- the compiler option {$C-}.
- -Revisions from 3.0 are small. I just put more comments in and removed
- the request for a donation.
-
- How to implement PASS:
- - You must first run PASSINT.COM to set your password. -
- PASS, is not the safest way to protect your system. All a person has to do
- is put a disk that does not have PASS in drive 'A' and boot the computer.
- But, it's better than nothing. The best way to load it is with the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file. When loaded, you will see only the cursor in the home
- position. When you type the password, you will not see anything except
- the cursur moving across the screen. This is done with the TextColor(0)
- command in Turbo. When you press return, you will either hear the siren,
- or see the screen clean (nothing to clear) and display some information
- on PASS. I have run into a problem that when the program finishes, the
- display goes to Color(0), to get around this type 'CLS' when the program
- finishes.
-
- Later versions:
- -Routine to lock up the keyboard after three tries(including CTRL-ALT-DEL).
- -Have an option that the password be the date.
- -Save in the PASS.FIL the dates and times of PASS running to see if any
- unauthorized use has occured.
-
- Thanks:
- I would like to thank Borland International for such nice programs as
- Turbo Pascal, Sidekick, ect. I would also like to thank my brother who
- taught me Pascal and his own language.
-
- Hope you like the program, I sure do.
- Look for other programs for me, if you want the first information on my
- stuff again, call my RBBS-PC at (203) 875-3647.
-