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#Help-Unprotect

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#33531From: Robert VailFeb 18, 1992 9:32 AM
Help !! I have been working on a LISP routine for my office for a couple of weeks now and have been "PROTECTING" it while Im gone. Well I erased the wrong file and cant get the encrypted file figured out. Does anybody know a way to look at protected lisp files? It would save me from re-inventing the wheel !!
#33547From: Brian Boatright [KBJ FL]Feb 18, 1992 11:44 AM
There is (or was) an UNPROT.exe file somewhere here on the Forum. Gotta warn you though if you've been kelvinating too: it's gonna look like hell! Forget seeing all those nifty mnemonic variable names….. <g> Brian
#33571From: Dave Byrnes [AEC TM]Feb 18, 1992 2:18 PM
Brian – there is a PROTECT routine somewhere, probably part of the SDK. There is not, nor was there ever, an UNPROTECT routine available from this forum. Imagine the howls from the third party developers if people knew that they could download a routine from the Autodesk forum that would break into 3rd party encrypted routines! Dave
#33577From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Feb 18, 1992 3:19 PM
>>is not .. has not … and shall not be UNPROTECT.EXE Thanks Dave … from all of us (for protecting our investment). Ang
#33684From: Larry Beck [Windows TM]Feb 19, 1992 10:19 AM
Ang: But be aware – there *are* UNPROTECT programs out there – just not on this forum. Larry
#33737From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Feb 19, 1992 3:02 PM
>> there are UNPROTECT programs Larry, Yea, I know. Back to keeping the honest, honest ya'know Ang
#33780From: Brian Boatright [KBJ FL]Feb 19, 1992 9:33 PM
Okay, Okay, guys…. Look. I'm sorry; I apologize; I made a MISTAKE! (only time you'll see *that* from me, better save this message) I *thought* (I know… _Total Recall_…) that I had at one time seen an unprotect routine on the Forum. It was at least a year ago, I was drunk, she was young… Today I did a BRO ALL for un*.* and didn't get nuttin'. Who started all this… Richard? Look, man, keep BACKUPS… I hate all that protect and kelvinate stuff anyway! <REALLY hate the Kelvinate… I'll never do *that* again> I feel for you, hey, *I* screwed up some of my Lisp routines with the stupid thing too! Let's all kill this thing, and go out there and BE CAREFUL! Brian (Humble) Boatright (The AntiKelvinator… where the hell is Kelvin?)
#33798From: Michael DakanFeb 20, 1992 12:37 AM
Brian: This Kelvin fellow *may* be the famous Kelvin Throop, who has been known to hack some mean Lisp code back at the factory…in addition to some interesting memos. If this is the case, then he's _definitely_ in Sausalito, for the moment. Michael
#33857From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Feb 20, 1992 4:20 PM
Brian, Please bend over, raise your right hand & repeat after me.. "I <your name here> do slalomly sky that I will not, shall not, think not ever again about that thing that I'm supposed to forget about. And even if I come across such a thing that never actually existed, I will immediately forget about it before I remember it. Further more, I will discourage any remembering of such items which I forget about by all others who may in the future tend to remember. As a matter of fact, I've now forgotten what we are talking about". Now all that is left is one of the SYSOP's to wholly water on you. Ang
#33950From: Brian Boatright [KBJ FL]Feb 21, 1992 7:51 AM
<Bending nervously over (with double underwear), hand raised, repeating:> "I Brian Boatright do slalomly sky that I will not, shall not, think not ever again about that … uh, uh … thing that I'm supposed to forget about. And even if I come across such a thing that probably existed, I will immediately forget about it before I remember it. Furthermore, I will discourage any remembering of such items which I forget about by all others who may in the future tend to remember <like Larry, who should take this oath too>. As a matter of fact, I've now forgotten what we are talking about". I'll think I'll pass on the Wholly Water — nobody passes water on me, I'm a Baptist and we swim in it! <g> There, Angelo, satisfied? Brian (I now *know* that you listen to the Greaseman!)
#33995From: Larry Beck [Windows TM]Feb 21, 1992 1:42 PM
Brian: We doan need no steenkin oath! <grin> Larry
#34003From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Feb 21, 1992 3:24 PM
>> don't need oath Larry, You better watch-out or the ACAD:CIS Thought Police will come in the night and erase your TAPCIS. Ang
#34015From: Brian Boatright [KBJ FL]Feb 21, 1992 4:33 PM
Larr' ol' buddy… I don't know about you but no TAPCIS (not to mention ATO) would create some problems in the bathroom….<g> Brian (Don't let Alaska read this!!!)
#34002From: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc]Feb 21, 1992 3:20 PM
>> ???? Brian, What were we talking about again? <g> Oh yea … I just didn't remember. <GGGGGGGG> Ang
#34016From: Brian Boatright [KBJ FL]Feb 21, 1992 4:33 PM
Got it.
#33610From: Robert VailFeb 18, 1992 6:47 PM
Brian: Couldnt find any Unprotc. file anywhere, and from looking at the messages apparently there is no such animal. I was hoping to find a way to peek at one maybe through LISP , but even the ATOMLIST comes up Protected. Well, back to the drawing board. Thanks, Robert.
#33675From: Tony Tanzillo [LISP TM]Feb 19, 1992 10:14 AM
Brian – I don't think you're going to find any decryption routines here. If you do, let me know. -TonyT.
#33609From: Bill KramerFeb 18, 1992 6:45 PM
There is a third party program named ACE from Missisaugua Canada [sorry for miss-spelled name, can't remember the exact spelling!]. It is a very good program for LISP developers since it contains a cross reference generator as well. I don't have the phone number handy, any one else? Bill
#33649From: Dave Byrnes [AEC TM]Feb 19, 1992 12:12 AM
Bill – that would be Nexsys Consulting. They recently moved from Mississauga; their new address is 44 Douglas Drive, Ayr, Ontario N0B 1E0. Telephone 519.632.8243. Dave
#34054From: Bill KramerFeb 21, 1992 7:31 PM
Thanks Dave! I didn't have their new address. Bill