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Article #5745Re: Resetting a laserwriter
From: Alan McLachlan
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:25
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. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here! -------------------------------------------------------------- Alan McLachlan [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!alan Pacific Data Products alan@pacdata.com --------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pacdata!alan From: alan@pacdata.uucp (Alan McLachlan) Subject: Re: Resetting a laserwriter Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182528.1313@pacdata.uucp> Organization: Pacific Data Products References: <1992Nov18.165758.11542@seas.smu.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:25:28 GMT Lines: 25