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Stacker- password option?

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From: Artificial Intelligence
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:42
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Does anyone know about a password option in the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker?
I've heard the new V3 is supposed to have a password option.  However, many
months ago when I was looking through the STACKER.COM file from V1.10, I
noticed text such as "Enter password".  I disassembled code near the text and
discovered code that did print the text and take input.  I then tried finding
any code that called this segment, with no luck.  Version 2 also has the
"Enter password" text and code which prints it and accepts input, but I've not
traced any code that calls this area of the program in V2, either.  Has 
anyone else noticed this?  The first and second versions are not supposed to
support passwords protection of Stacker volumes; their manuals make no 
reference to this.  Do the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker actually have
an undocumented password option?  Or was this code perhaps an abortive attempt
at adding a password option that they never implemented until V3?  

Thanks-


Aaron
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