Copyright C 1993 Michael S. Engber. All rights reserved.



Password v1

Another fine product from Avarice Software



Password is a small utility for quickly turning on an off password

protection on the Newton. Its icon in the extras drawer indicates

whether password protection is currently turned on or off. Click on

its icon to toggle the state.



The built-in way of turning on/off password protection is somewhat

cumbersome, especially if you do it often. To turn off password

protection you use Prefs, enter your old password, and leave the

new password line blank. To turn password protection back on, you

return to Prefs and reenter your password.



Use of Password is free of charge. I encourage you to share it freely.





Send comments and bug reports to:



Michael S. Engber

U.S. Mail:         3486 Golden State Dr, Santa Clara, CA  95051

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Known Bugs:



- If you turn on or off password protection using Prefs, Password's

  icon will not reflect the new state until you tap on it. This is

  because the current version of Prefs doesn't notify other apps

  when it changes the system soup.



- Sometimes the icon will flicker briefly when it changes state. This

  is only a cosmetic problem, it doesn't mean Password is having

  trouble setting the state of password protection.





Version History



v1 - first public release