Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:33:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: "Gautam N. Lad" <gautam AT interlog DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro: Password protecting DATAFILE
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On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Gautam N. Lad wrote:

> Hi,
> This may be one of the dumbest question, but is there any way to password 
> protect Allegro's DATAFILE (.DAT) so that if a user of my program has 
> DJGPP and Allegro fully installed, tries to open up my program's .DAT file, it 
> would ask for a password (which is stored in the .DAT file).
> I mean, they can hack the Grabber program to by-pass the password (if 
> possible), but is something like this possible, hopefully in the future (or is it 
> already available in v3.x)?
> 
This was availble in 2.2 I think. In grabber where you have under menu
editing: header: prefix: and password: inputs.

> Bye!
> 
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> Gautam N. Lad
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> E-Mail:	gautam AT interlog DOT com
> Website:	http://www.interlog.com/~gautam
> 
> POV-Ray Software, Gallery, and Links!
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