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- RELEASE NOTES AND RANDOM WANDERINGS....
-
- Password for the Portfolio
-
-
-
- Here is version 2.0 of my password
- program for the PF. It works identically
- to version 1.1, but is much smaller.
-
- To install password :
-
- Copy password.exe onto your boot
- device. This will be C: if you don't
- use a RAM card, A: if you do. In the
- example I will assume you put it in the
- root directory and your password is
- "phlugg".
-
- Edit your autoexec.bat file to read :
-
- @ECHO OFF
- A:\PASSWORD phlugg
-
- The rest of your autoexec comes next.
-
- When you do a cold or warm boot you
- will see the prompt:
-
- Password :
-
- Enter the password and press return.
-
- Note that the backspace key DOES NOT
- delete the previous character.
-
- FOR USERS OF V1.1 :
-
- Remember to delete the old version,
- v2.0 is an .exe file, v1.1 was a .com
- file. The new one will not overwrite
- the old one.
-
- IMPLEMENTATION NOTES :
-
- This version is written in Turbo
- Assembler, with some help from Tom
- Swan's excellent book "Mastering Turbo
- Assembler".
-
- I have tried to make it behave as much
- like the C version as possible, only
- saving as much space as possible, which
- accounts for the more terse prompt in
- this version.
-
- This is my first foray into the hairy
- world of assembler, for those more
- knowledgable in the subject than
- myself, please forgive the glaring
- style/usage errors that I'm sure I've
- committed.
-
- I haven't included the source code for
- the external library routines that are
- called from this module. I am as yet
- unsure of the copyright status on the
- code in TS's book, and since I don't
- have explicit permission to
- re-distribute it, I've not included it
- here.
-
-
- 10/10/90
- Alan Davis
- CIS : 72317,3661
-