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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!cctr132
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
- Subject: Re: Word Perfect Password Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.142829.6100@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ)
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:28:28 +1200
- References: <28JUL199211122353@watson.bms.com>
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Lines: 23
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- In article <28JUL199211122353@watson.bms.com>, hutchinson@watson.bms.com
- (ROBERT HUTCHINSON) writes:
- > The other day I tried to retrieve a document I have from about 2-3 years
- > ago. Being security minded I had password protected it. Of course by now you
- > know where this is leading, I can't remember the password! This would not be
- > so bad if it was one document, but I checked all of my documents from that
- > time frame (about 50 of them) and they all were also locked. I have an old
- > program called TRYALL4.EXE which can guess passwords up to 4 characters long.
- > Of course, mine were longer. I have tried every password I can remember with
- > no luck at all. Is there any program which can help me? If it could just
- > give me the first few letters of the password I could most likely identify it.
- > Has anyone else had this problem? If so what did you do? Can anyone help?
-
- Bob posted to the wrong group - he obviously was looking for cbip.wanted
- or one of the .misc or .apps groups.
-
- I have posted a followup with a list of names of about 8 programs that
- may be able to help in the comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted group. The
- posting is under the same subject as this one.
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- Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z.
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