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- PASSWORD.THD is a special file which when located in the same directory as
- THDPRO.EXE can be used to supply passwords during the testing of password
- protected archives.
- The general idea is to tell THDPRO.EXE three things to enable it to
- determine if a password is required.
-
- The first "word" must be the name of the file which is likely to be
- password protected. It should include filename and extension in the same
- format expected by DOS. Wildcards are accepted in the filename entry.
-
- The second "word" is the archive type. This can be any of ARC, ARJ, PAK,
- RAR, and ZIP. The other archive types are not supported by this feature and
- the use of Info-Zip programs under OS/2 also excludes the ZIP type from this
- specification (password protection is not available in all forms of
- UNZIP.EXE).
- PAK reguires a registered version to use this feature. If you attempt to
- use this with PAK archives without a registered version, errors will result.
- Note that the archive type must match the type of the file being checked
- in order for this password to be used. This is done because the "author"
- usually only releases in a single archive type and anyone converting that
- archive to another type is highly unlikely to preserve the password. If the
- archive type does not match what is entered here, THD will not pass the
- password on the command line.
-
- The third "word" is the actual password to pass to the program when
- expanding the archive. Note that passwords are almost always case sensitive
- and THDPRO.EXE will not modify the case of the word you enter here (the
- filename and archive type are not case sensitive).
-
- Each of these words must be separated by ONLY a single (1) space.
- Additions of extra spaces between the words will almost certainly nullify the
- usefulness of the entry. The words MUST be in the order of Filename, type,
- password, with only three words per line. (additional comments etc should be
- placed on a separate line else they "may" be passed as part of the password)
-
- The sample entry below would be useful for people receiving Telegard Gamma
- releases (version 2.99x and possibly version 3.0).
-
- install.tg zip ALIVE
- | | | | | |
- ---- ----- - - -- --
- | | |
- | | > Password to use to unarchive
- | > archive type
- > file name (wildcards supported)
-
- So, to activate this feature you need to create PASSWORD.THD in the same
- directory as THDPRO.EXE. With any text editor enter the file name, archive
- type, and password (each separated by a single space) with one such entry per
- line and as many lines as you like.
- Note that since THD will only process this file if it exists, then I
- recommend you only use it if you "regularly" get password protected archives
- which you already know the passwords for.
- Also since THDPRO.EXE will process every single line of PASSWORD.THD, then
- it makes sense to keep the file as small as possible (although few people
- would have a list large enough to noticably impact performance).
-
- And last but not least, if you can't make heads or tails of this text...
- sorry, that's what happens when things are added at the last minute. In the
- meantime ask around, there's bound to be at least one person in your city who
- can figure it out <G>.
-
- David Muir... Author THD ProScan.
-