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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pacdata!alan
  3. From: alan@pacdata.uucp (Alan McLachlan)
  4. Subject: Re: Resetting a laserwriter
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182528.1313@pacdata.uucp>
  6. Organization: Pacific Data Products
  7. References: <1992Nov18.165758.11542@seas.smu.edu>
  8. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:25:28 GMT
  9. Lines: 25
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  11. In article <1992Nov18.165758.11542@seas.smu.edu> doug@seas.smu.edu (Doug Davis) writes:
  12. >
  13. >Howdy,
  14. >we have a small problem with an apple laserwriter where by someone
  15. >has downloaded some postscript to it resetting the idle time, end
  16. >of file and the password to something we don't know (or desire)
  17. >Anyone know how to reset one of these beasts all the way back
  18. >to factory defaults?   Any help would be appreciated, I'll
  19. >summerize if there's any other interest.
  20. >
  21.  
  22. The only way I know to do this would be to write a small program that
  23. essentially would hunt down the correct password with the "checkpassword"
  24. command in statusdict. Just loop through all the possibilities til it
  25. found it.
  26. Can post a program if interested.
  27.  
  28. -- 
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  30.   Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!
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  32. Alan McLachlan                       [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!alan
  33. Pacific Data Products                alan@pacdata.com
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