Password Problem

[GCC Consulting]

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> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Vicky Prigg
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:33 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Password Problem
> 
> 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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As pointed out in a previous post, you most likely are missing the fppath file.
However, I have found, at least for DOS/native versions, just creating a blank
file with that name in the proper location, should take care of the problem.

Just make sure you update these file in 5.0.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting