Password Problem
Vicky Prigg
vprigg at laparkan.com
Tue Jun 1 08:35:31 PDT 2004
The password is not on the output format, just the processing, so the F8
function doesn't work for these. I can get into the output format with
no problem, but if I try to look at the processing, it asks for a
processing password. Sometimes, I can use vi to remove the password, I
can actually read the processing table and know where the password is.
Other times, the whole file is unreadable (just a bunch of characters)
so I don't know which is the password. If it somehow acquired a site
password, wouldn't all of the tables have a password on them?
Vicky Prigg
Laparkan Trading Ltd.
2929 NW 73rd St.
Miami, FL 33147
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: special symbol (Richard D. Williams)
2. Password Problem (Vicky Prigg)
3. Re: Password Problem (SmittyUSN1 at aol.com)
4. Re: special symbol (Kenneth Brody)
5. Re: special symbol (Bob Rasmussen)
6. RE: Password Problem (Jeff Harrison)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:20:52 -0500
From: "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net>
Subject: Re: special symbol
To: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
Cc: filePro mailing list <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
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Well, I have tried several combinations to produce this symbol, here is
the latest;
$1b ( 0 N #167
I really need to print this symbol. My printer will print the symbol if
I use it in a word document or e-mail.
I am remote to the Linux server, so I cannot test directly on a system
printer. But, that should be an issue as most of our printing is
remote.
I am not well versed on creating print codes, so perhaps someon e could
point out what I am missing in the above attempt.
Thanks,
Richard D. Williams
Brian K. White wrote:
>Richard D. Williams wrote:
>
>
>>Perhaps I should be more clear. I need this to print on a form.
>>
>>After trying: h=chr("167"), this yielded: º
>>
>>Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>>Richard D. Williams
>>
>>Bob Stockler wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know the code to produce this symbol, §?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>On an SCO ScoTerm Window it's chr("167").
>>>
>>> [trebor] ~: mawk 'BEGIN{ i=167 ; printf "%3d - %c\n",i,i}'
>>> 167 - §
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>
>
>In that case, just issue a printer code to switch to a latin font just
for
>that character.
>
>For hplaser try adding this code to your print code table, say you make
it
>code 130:
>
>130 : $1b (0N : Latin-1 character set
>
>Similar to the ones 24, 25, & 26 that are already there.
>
>Then in your output format put a print code 130 somewhere before the
data
>that might contain the symbol, and a code 24 after it if you need to
switch
>back to IBM for the line/box drawing characters.
>
>The symbol may exist in one of the already existing alternate character
sets
>in code 25 or 26 but I don't know off hand it does or what ascii value
it
>might be. I just happen to have a chart for latin-1 so in latin-1 I
know
>which character it is, and I just happen to know the pcl code to
request
>latin-1 character set.
>
>A quick way to test if this will work as expected on your printer to
see if
>your printer actually has the necessary built-in font to honor the
request
>is like I did with an echo comand at a unix prompt:
>echo "\033(0N\0247\014\c" |lp -o raw -d hplaser
>
>\0247 is the octal equivalent of decimal 167
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:32:42 -0400
From: "Vicky Prigg" <vprigg at laparkan.com>
Subject: Password Problem
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We have been having a problem with passwords on output processing and I
was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so, what can we
do about it. Some of our output processing tables have acquired
passwords somehow. There are only 2 of us doing the programming (we do
not have any outside consultants) and we have not given passwords to
these tables. So, obviously, we can't get into the tables to modify
programs. Backups won't help as we had cycled through our 5 tapes
before we realized something was wrong. Not all of the processing
tables in any one file have passwords, only a few and it can occur on
automatic, input and/or output processing. I traveled to New York last
week to another one of our offices and they had the same problem there.
We recently converted from version 4.8 to 5.0 and the problem seems to
have happened after that time so we didn't know if there was a
connection.
Vicky Prigg
Laparkan Trading Ltd.
2929 NW 73rd St.
Miami, FL 33147
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:49:48 EDT
From: SmittyUSN1 at aol.com
Subject: Re: Password Problem
To: FILEPRO-LIST at SEASLUG.ORG (filePro List)
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Sometimes the table gets a ghost password from copying, moving, etc.
you
can try going into the Define Output mode for the offending file and
use the
F8 function, go down thru the syntax and assign a new blank password.
That would be the first thing I would try.
Wayne Smith
Port Orange, Florida 32129
386.767.8605
In a message dated 6/1/2004 10:39:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
vprigg at laparkan.com writes:
We have been having a problem with passwords on output processing and I
was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so, what can
we
do about it. Some of our output processing tables have acquired
passwords somehow. There are only 2 of us doing the programming (we do
not have any outside consultants) and we have not given passwords to
these tables. So, obviously, we can't get into the tables to modify
programs. Backups won't help as we had cycled through our 5 tapes
before we realized something was wrong. Not all of the processing
tables in any one file have passwords, only a few and it can occur on
automatic, input and/or output processing. I traveled to New York last
week to another one of our offices and they had the same problem there.
We recently converted from version 4.8 to 5.0 and the problem seems to
have happened after that time so we didn't know if there was a
connection.
Vicky Prigg
Laparkan Trading Ltd.
2929 NW 73rd St.
Miami, FL 33147
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:51:22 -0400
From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
Subject: Re: special symbol
To: "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net>
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"Richard D. Williams" wrote:
>
> Well, I have tried several combinations to produce this symbol, here
is the
> latest;
> $1b ( 0 N #167
What was the result?
What else did you try, and what were the results?
> I really need to print this symbol. My printer will print the symbol
if I
> use it in a word document or e-mail.
> I am remote to the Linux server, so I cannot test directly on a system
> printer. But, that should be an issue as most of our printing is
remote.
I don't recall if you've answered this yet, but what is the exact
printer
(make and model) that you're using?
Also, what is the computer setup? (What system is the printer attached
to? Is filePro on that remote system, or a local system? How are you
printing? Etc., etc., etc.)
> I am not well versed on creating print codes, so perhaps someon e
could point
> out what I am missing in the above attempt.
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:18:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com>
Subject: Re: special symbol
To: "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net>
Cc: filePro mailing list <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Richard D. Williams wrote:
> Well, I have tried several combinations to produce this symbol, here
is the
> latest;
> $1b ( 0 N #167
>
> I really need to print this symbol. My printer will print the symbol
if I use
> it in a word document or e-mail.
> I am remote to the Linux server, so I cannot test directly on a system
> printer. But, that should be an issue as most of our printing is
remote.
>
> I am not well versed on creating print codes, so perhaps someon e
could point
> out what I am missing in the above attempt.
I haven't been paying close attention, so pardon me if I'm not totally
tuned in.
First, whenever you deal with a character higher than decimal 127, it's
not enough to know what numeric value it has. You have to know numeric
value IN A PARTICULAR CHARACTER SET. The section sign has a Unicode
value
of A7 (hex), which is also its value in the ISO Latin 1 set, and also
its
value in Windows codepage 1252. However, that would NOT be its value in
the DOS character set (aka. codepage 437). In fact, I don't see it
there.
Try poking around in the Windows program "charset" (Start:Run:Charset).
When you want to print something, there are two general ways to do it:
1) Set the printer into a particular character set, and then send the
right character value. How you do this depends on the printer you have,
and what character sets is includes.
2) Send a bitmap or other downloadable definition of the character, and
print that. This is what the Windows printer driver does when you want
to
print characters (or fonts) that are not built in to the printer.
However,
this is not a trivial matter when printing from filePro (or Unix/Linux
in
general).
So what to do? You have stated that you are running fP remotely. I
assume
that means through a terminal emulator. Your terminal emulator may give
you some assistance with this. Check with the vendor.
If you use AnzioWin, with its built-in Print Wizard logic, you can print
any character. We include a printcode table that defines many special
characters, specified in Unicode values. The Print Wizard logic
automatically selects the fonts to be used. You can even print Russian,
Chinese, etc. More on Anzio is available at our website.
Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
fax: (US) 503-624-0760
web: http://www.anzio.com
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:25:19 -0400
From: Jeff Harrison <Jeff.Harrison at Epixweb.com>
Subject: RE: Password Problem
To: 'Vicky Prigg' <vprigg at laparkan.com>,
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Message-ID:
<827C6DC5D4BA11449AD6412A99F1903E0B67E878 at tpa-mail.epix.local>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Vicky Prigg wrote:
>
> We have been having a problem with passwords on output
> processing and I
> was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so,
> what can we
> do about it. Some of our output processing tables have acquired
> passwords somehow. There are only 2 of us doing the
> programming (we do
> not have any outside consultants) and we have not given passwords to
> these tables. So, obviously, we can't get into the tables to modify
> programs. Backups won't help as we had cycled through our 5 tapes
> before we realized something was wrong. Not all of the processing
> tables in any one file have passwords, only a few and it can occur on
> automatic, input and/or output processing. I traveled to New
> York last
> week to another one of our offices and they had the same
> problem there.
> We recently converted from version 4.8 to 5.0 and the problem seems to
> have happened after that time so we didn't know if there was a
> connection.
>
>
When your processing tables were last saved I assume that you had a
different /etc/fppath file. If you can restore an old version of this
file
your problems will probably go away.
I believe that the 4th line of this file is an encoded checksum of your
site
password. As long as you create and save the processing tables with
that
line in place filepro will not ask you for the site password. Since it
changed, filepro thinks you have moved these files to a different site
so it
is asking for it now. If you can't find the old /etc/fppath file then
If
your tables are stored as ascii you should be able to use a regular text
editor to strip the passwords. Otherwise fptech should be able to strip
them for you for a fee.
Good Luck.
Jeff Harrison
jeff.harrison at epixweb.com
Author of JHExport and JHImport - The fastest and easiest ways to
generate
code for filepro exports and imports. Demos available upon request.
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