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- PC-Lock Version 1.1a
-
- PC-Lock provides password protection for your hard disk. If you boot from
- your hard disk, you must enter your password before DOS will come up. Even if
- you boot from a floppy, you must be able to enter your password before you can
- access your hard disk. PC-Lock is not in the public domain and, although the
- price is very low, it is not free. Please see the PC-LOCK.DOC file for more
- information.
-
- This release of PC-Lock is identical to version 1.1 except for this added note
- and the new utility TELL.
-
- All users who register versions 1.0 or 1.1 (see the PC-LOCK.DOC file) receive
- PC-Lock 1.2 at no additional charge. Version 1.2 is available in no other way.
- It contains substantial feature enhancements including two levels of passwords,
- and support for: a wider variety of clones, systems having two hard disks,
- more display controller boards, etc.
-
-
- THE TELL UTILITY
-
- PC-Lock 1.2 uses a more secure password encryption scheme than earlier versions.
- Since all REGISTERED users of earlier versions now have version 1.2, and since
- there are FAR MORE unregistered than registered users, we have included the
- TELL utility. Simply run TELL on a system which has PC-Lock version 1.0 or
- 1.1 installed and it will "tell" you the machine's current password. TELL does
- not eliminate the protection of any registered user who has installed version
- 1.2, and we will never provide a TELL that works with version 1.2.
-
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- OUR PHONE NUMBER
-
- If wish to reach us by phone, please call (804) 872-9583. If we need to return
- your call and you are not a registered user, we will have to call collect.
-
-
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- PC-Lock Version 1.1 Enhancements
-
- If you do not have PC-Lock version 1.0 installed on your hard disk, you may
- omit reading the rest of this file and go directly to the PC-LOCK.DOC file.
-
- PC-Lock version 1.1 contains two enhancements not found in version 1.0. The
- first of these allows PC-Lock to work with all known Western Digital hard
- disk controllers. Some Western Digital controllers contain a bug which
- causes PC-Lock to fail. The folks at Western Digital were most helpful in
- providing information on exactly what they were doing so that PC-Lock could
- be modified to avoid the problem. They also indicated they were working with
- several other software vendors having the same basic problem with their
- controller.
-
- Secondly, a new utility, UNLOCK, has beed added which allows you to access
- your hard disk even when the system is booted from a floppy disk. You must
- still know your password, however. This utility is described in the file
- PC-LOCK.DOC.
-
- If you wish to install version 1.1, please use the 1.0 DESTALL utility to remove
- version 1.0 from your computer PRIOR to installing version 1.1.
-
- Users who have registered their copies of PC-Lock 1.0 have or will receive
- a copy of version 1.2 in the mail. Their license is automatically extended
- cover version 1.2. Thank you for your support.