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- WPUNCRYP 1.0 - Word Perfect 4.x or 5.x File Uncryptor
- Just so you won't have to use Word Perfect to uncrypt a Word Perfect file...
-
- Copyright (C)1991 Ron Dippold
-
- Once you have determined the password of the Word Perfect file from your
- memory or with WPCRACK, you can use this to see the contents of the file
- or save the contents to a text or Word Perfect file.
-
- The syntax is:
-
- WPUNCRYP (-o) (-p) (-b) w|t "password" <input file> (<output file>)
-
- Parameters:
-
- The "w" or "t" tells it which type of output you want. If you use "w" the
- entire decrypted file will be written to <output file>. This will be a
- totally legal Word Perfect file. If you use "t" only the actual text (and none
- of the header or printer information) will be written to the file. In addition
- some minor translation will occur to clean things up.
-
- "password" is obviously the password of the file. I show the quotes because
- if your password contains spaces, commas, semicolons, or other things that DOS
- will separate into two parameters, you need the quotes to keep it together. If
- you need double quotes in your password, use single quotes around it. The
- password is required.
-
- <input file> is the name of the file you are decrypting. This is required.
-
- <output file> is the optional name of the file to save the output to.
- If you do NOT give the name of the file, only the actual text of the file will
- be shown to the screen. You can use this to do a quick test of a password.
-
- Optional Switches:
-
- -o : The Word Perfect file contains the checksum of the password that was
- used to encrypt it. If your password does not have the same checksum,
- it is VERY unlikely you will uncrypt the file successfully. However, I
- hate to cripple a user, so use "-o" to force the program to continue if
- the checksums don't match.
-
- -p : If the output is being displayed to the screen (if you don't give an
- <output file> name), including the "-p" switch will force WPUNCRYP to
- pause every 24 lines for you to hit a key. ESC or CTRL-C will cancel
- the program.
-
- -b : Word Perfect has two kinds of line breaks: hard and soft. Hard breaks
- are where you deliberately inserted a line break, and WPUNCRYP will always
- leave this be. A soft break is a break that is caused by the text going
- past the margin. Change the margin and these change! Normally, WPUNCRYP
- will translate these just as a hard break at the end of the line. If you
- are going to be loading the text into a word processor that does full
- paragraph processing, however, you might with to use the "-b" switch.
- This will translate the soft breaks as a space, and the word processor
- can then figure out where to break the lines.
-
- Notes:
-
- I haven't actually tried this on a Word Perfect 4.x file. Frankly, I can't
- find one. I have the file format (I think) and I wrote the program based on
- that. If it doesn't work, contact me at the address below.
-
- If you are sending output to the screen or to a text file, remember that all
- that Word Perfect formatting crud is still in there. It looks like garbage,
- and it's up to you to take it out. You'll often see a lot of it at the
- beginning of the file, so don't be surprised by it.
-
- I haven't tried this on any Word Perfect 5.x other than the IBM version. If
- you have it for another computer and are interested in getting a version for
- it, and you have InterNet access, send me the following: a UUENCODED (short)
- Word Perfect 5.x file, a UUENCODED version of the file after it has been
- saved with a password, and a letter saying hello and the password you used.
- See my address below.
-
- ==============================================================================
- You can reach me at my Internet address of rdippold@qualcomm.com or contact
- me at one of the fine boards below:
-
- Board Phone My Username
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-
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