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Re: Resetting a laserwriter

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From: Alan McLachlan
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:25
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In article <1992Nov18.165758.11542@seas.smu.edu> doug@seas.smu.edu (Doug Davis) writes:
>
>Howdy,
>we have a small problem with an apple laserwriter where by someone
>has downloaded some postscript to it resetting the idle time, end
>of file and the password to something we don't know (or desire)
>Anyone know how to reset one of these beasts all the way back
>to factory defaults?   Any help would be appreciated, I'll
>summerize if there's any other interest.
>

The only way I know to do this would be to write a small program that
essentially would hunt down the correct password with the "checkpassword"
command in statusdict. Just loop through all the possibilities til it
found it.
Can post a program if interested.

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