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the passwords for: Discount/Reduction, Returns/Payouts, and File Maiteance will only accept the master password.

It is posible that there are hidden characters in your passwords. Try this, if you are having a problem with a pasword enter an eight letter password. This will force out any hidden characters. Now see if your new eight letter password works. If it does then you have forced out the hidden characters and can now change the pasword back to anything you want.

Here is what may be happening. When the ??????.POS file is created it may be written into a part of your disk that is empty. Since there is nothing in the passwords when the file is created it may use what is already on the disk in that location, i.e. nothing. The ASCII code for nothing is of course CHR$(0) and CHR$(0) displays on your screen the same as a space. If you then enter the password of DALE you think that it is DALE + 4 spaces but it is really DALE + 4 CHR$(0) characters. When the program compares the password you enter to the password in the file it will drop any spaces but will not drop the CHR$(0) characters. So if you enter the password DALE to do whatever, it will be compared to DALE + 4 CHR$(0) characters and that will not match.

So try the 8 character password thing and let me know if this solves the problem. If it does I will modify the program to check for CHR$(0) in the passwords.

Dale

Thanks . It worked. I guess that was the problem.


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Dale

I guess that was the problem cause it fixed it. Thanks.

I have added code to the next release of the program that will check for CHR$(0) in passwords and remove them.

HUH?

i though POS was writtan in QBASIC?

What's the deal with JevaScript?

Barry,

POS is written in QBASIC.

That Javascript stuff is something in that person's forum signature which hasn't worked.

barryh,

POS is written in QuickBASIC 7.1, there is no Javascript in it.