Word Perfect 5.1 encrypted files

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From: Bruce Waldman
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 10:02

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Is there any possible remedy for someone (a
student in my course) who encrypted a Word Perfect 5.1
file and now has forgotten the password he used?
(Not using WP myself, I would hope the answer is no...
but perhaps there are some tricks for this sort of
inevitable accident).
 
Bruce Waldman
bw@gnu.ai.mit.edu
B.Waldman@csc.canterbury.ac.nz

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