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From: cs290ac@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Password problem
Message-ID: <18200005@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 17:15:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs290ac    Jul 25 12:15:00 1990



I have 10 hypercard stacks which I created about a year ago.  The
person I created them for now needs to fix typos in fields.  The
problem is that someone else stuck password protections on all the
stacks, and I don't know what the password is.  Hypercard won't
even let me read the field from another stack.  I wanted to know if
there is a stack or program which can get through the password.  If
not, I'll have to have a go at it with a sector editor.  I doubt the
password would be there waiting for me in standard ascii, so what
I am also looking for is a program which will look at two files, and
tell me, what bytes exactly have been changed.  My logic is that if
I compare two copies of the same stack, one protected, one not, I
could figure out what hypercard does, and where the password is.
--I hope.

--RS