Resetting a laserwriter

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2 total messages Started by Doug Davis Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:57

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Author: Doug Davis
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:57

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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.


Thanks
doug
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Re: Resetting a laserwriter

#5745

Author: 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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