                               MinCrack  v1.1

                       U of MN Minuet Password Cracker
                      Copyright (c) 1996 Ethan Galstad
                             All rights reserved.
                  Commercial use without license prohibited.



CONTENTS
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o  DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION
o  LICENSING INFORMATION
o  DISCLAIMER
o  WHAT MINCRACK DOES
o  HOW TO RUN MINCRACK



DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION
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The freeware version of MinCrack may be freely distributed, as long
as all the supporting documentation and files are copied along with it.
The registered version of MinCrack may NOT be distributed and may only
be used on the machine(s) it is registered for.  Once you register your 
version of MinCrack ($3), you will receive the latest registered version 
of MinCrack along with my other password recovery software and utilities.  
Send checks, money orders, bug reports, suggestions, comments, flames, 
etc. to:

        Ethan Galstad
        6971 Balsam Rd.
        Eau Claire, WI 54701



LICENSING INFORMATION
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Commercial use of the freeware or registered version MinCrack requires 
a license which is available for a small fee.  Contact me at the address 
above for further information about obtaining a license for MinCrack.



DISCLAIMER
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The author of MinCrack hereby expressly disclaims all warranties, 
expressed or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability 
or fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to the MinCrack
software and documentation.  The author also disclaims any liability for
any damages or loss of any type that any user of said software may incur.
This includes, but is not limited to, financial, electrical, magnetic, 
or mechanical damages or losses.  All software and documentation is
provided "as is" and is to be used at your own risk.



WHAT MINCRACK DOES
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MinCrack will recover lost email passwords that are used by the University 
of Minnesota's MINUET program.  Forgetting one's email password, especially 
when it's saved on disk, seems to be a common problem for many people, so I 
decided to help out by writing this password recovery utility.



HOW TO RUN MINCRACK
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In order to recover a lost or forgotten MINUET email password, simply type
the following on the DOS command line:

   MINCRACK <config_file>

Replace the <config_file> parameter with the name of the MINUET configuration
file.  This file is usually called 'MINUET.CNF' and resides in you \MINUET
directory or somewhere similiar.

MINCRACK will read the MINUET configuration file and print the email username,
address, and password that are used when fetching email.



*** Notes ***

(a) MINCRACK does not verify that the MINUET configuration file you give it
    is a valid one, so it will most likely spew out garbage if you don't
    use the correct file.

(b) MINCRACK has only been tested with version 1.0b16 of MINUET, so if
    you find a version that it doesn't work with, let me know.


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