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by qingcharles 655 days ago
> Also, in the course of things I discovered that Tim used PKZIP inside the BASIC code using a password that used non-printing characters.

Wow, that would make brute-forcing it an order of magnitude slower if you're having to cycle through control characters too. I wouldn't have thought to do this, as I wouldn't risk it not being supported.