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From: garths%glass@Sun.COM (Garth Snyder)
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Subject: Re: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products
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Date: 18 Aug 89 01:06:54 GMT
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thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes:

> How do you do this?  I can use FEdit or MacSnoop to find the name, but how
> is it formatted?  Does anyone know?  It doesn't work if you just change the
> letters.  I guess it's missing some delimiter, but I don't know what it wants.
> Someone must have done this before...I'm sure it must happen all the time.

Use your favorite file editor to set the logical length of the data
fork to zero.  The next time you start the program, you'll be asked to
re-enter your name.

Disclaimer: This is the way it works on my Microsoft products (Excel
1.04 and Word 3.01).  It may have changed since those programs were
released.  Other companies that have name registration use different
storage systems.

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