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- Subject: Stacker- password option?
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:42:49 GMT
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- Organization: The Superior Silicon Race
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- Does anyone know about a password option in the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker?
- I've heard the new V3 is supposed to have a password option. However, many
- months ago when I was looking through the STACKER.COM file from V1.10, I
- noticed text such as "Enter password". I disassembled code near the text and
- discovered code that did print the text and take input. I then tried finding
- any code that called this segment, with no luck. Version 2 also has the
- "Enter password" text and code which prints it and accepts input, but I've not
- traced any code that calls this area of the program in V2, either. Has
- anyone else noticed this? The first and second versions are not supposed to
- support passwords protection of Stacker volumes; their manuals make no
- reference to this. Do the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker actually have
- an undocumented password option? Or was this code perhaps an abortive attempt
- at adding a password option that they never implemented until V3?
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- Thanks-
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- Aaron
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