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From: lsh@polari.UUCP (Lee Hauser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Password Protection
Keywords: WordPerfect, password
Message-ID: <3634@polari.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 03:58:52 GMT
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References: <1991Mar29.140025.20221@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
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In article <1991Mar29.140025.20221@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> jbp@ngss1.jhuapl.edu (John Phelps) writes:
could someone please let me know if
>there is a way to unprotect a WordPerfect file if you've forgotten
>the password used to protect it ?

No.
 
That is, according to WordPerfect's support lines, short of going in with a
hex editor and figuring out the encryption.  But there is no magic decoder that
I have ever heard about to do the job.  For that reason, I never, never, ever
protect a WP file with passwords.

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