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Password protect DOS Clock set
Name: Sheba Date: October 31, 2002 at 13:07:55 Pacific OS: IBM PC DOS 2000 CPU/Ram: 486/12meg
Comment:
My dos system runs my office including the employee punch clock. It is on a Lantastic ver 8 network.
My employees clock in and out on my Dos computer. One of them is playing with the time set in DOS before clocking in and out to pad his pay. Can I password protect this feature? Please don't lecture me on having to fire all evil snakey employees. This one is very important to my operation.
Name: tech-fred Date: October 31, 2002 at 15:24:27 Pacific
Reply:
Since TIME is part of COMMAND.COM the only thing I can think of is to patch COMMAND.COM so that TIME is ????.
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Response Number 2
Name: VP Date: November 4, 2002 at 06:57:44 Pacific
Reply:
For PC Dos 2000 Make a boot disk. Include the sys command. Add a hex editer to the floppy. Copy command.com file to command.co_ Start up the hex edit program. ** Make sure you are NOT in read only mode. ** Open command.com Goto hex offset 0000BDDB Edit time to whatever you want. (Must be 4 char. Uppercase) Save file
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