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- SAVER.DOC
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- The Saver program is a unique combination of a screen
- "saver" and data "saver" utility. Overall, the Saver program
- is a utility that many people will find themselves using at
- least on a daily basis. I have also included another similar
- program MyLock for users without the screen saver need. Tsaver,
- also in this package also acts as a screen saver in that it
- blanks the display.
-
- Saver requires that you have a video card capable of
- graphics. The Saver program recognizes and uses active video
- modes of VGA, EGA, CGA and Hercules. This program will work
- with a MDA adapter. However, there will be no graphics output
- in MDA mode. Saver has been tested for VGA, CGA, and Hercules
- modes. The program has also been tuned for 386-16Mhz systems
- with VGA graphics.
-
- The user uses command line parameters to invoke Saver.
- The parameters given are prompt, password, and attempts to allow.
- The prompt parameter is limited to approximately 76 characters in length,
- this is accomplished by "quoting" off of the prompt. Currently, the
- password is limited to 8 characters. The size of attempts is limited to 65535.
- If you enter an attempts less than or equal to 0 then an infinite number
- of attempts are allowed, for example -1.
-
- Following are some example parameters:
-
- saver -p"access code: " -ktest -a 10
- saver -ptest: -ktest. -a 100
- saver -p"password: " -kkod88! -a 5
- saver -p"Access Code:" -k test -a-1
-
- Now that we have invoked the program what will happen is that the
- display will be switched to a graphics mode and a circle will
- start moving across the display from left to right in a sine wave
- motion. When the circle hits the right edge it will start again
- from the left edge. This will continue until the user depresses
- the alt key and the right shift keys of the keyboard. (In this
- manner your monitor can be left running without worry of "burn in.")
- Whereupon the display will change to a text mode and the
- users prompt will be displayed. Then the user has attempts
- number of times to correctly enter the password.
- If the password is not correctly entered an Access Denied message
- will be displayed on screen within a red window with blinking
- bright white text. Also an audible alarm sound will start.
-
- This is a good program to run when you have to leave your
- work station for a brief period of time. For instance, you have
- to speak with your manager in his office a few minutes. Maybe
- you have a daily conference to attend and do not want to power
- cycle your computer.
-
- This program is distributed under the shareware concept. If you
- continue to use this software you are required to register it, see
- locks.doc for information
-
- This program is distributed under the shareware concept. If you
- continue to use this software you are required to register it with
- Kodiak Enterprises, 913.776.8181 x10. See locks.doc for more information.
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