O$5.1 - encstr

[Dawid Mocke]

Hi List,
I have been using this function to encode db passwords stored in text based
config files for a couple of years now.
It works beautifully.

However I am running into a challenge on V5 of Studio that by default is
Unicode enabled.
On earlier version I have issues when trying to use decstr() to decrypt the
string.
decstr works fine on Windows 7 platform, but on I have problems decrypting
on earlier versions (especially if the password was encrypted with V5
unicode app).
If it was encrypted with previous V4 version of the app, these OS's does not
have issues decrypting the passwords, only when a 'new' password is
encrypted with the V5 upgraded app.

I am running the app on various version of Windows OS's (clients have not
all upgraded to even XP yet....yes you read right!  I have clients that are
still running Windows 2000 workstations!!!).

My question is this:
How can I force encstr and decstr functions to treat the password in a
non-unicode way?  Maybe I am slow, sorry for asking silly questions.


kindest regards,



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Dawid Mocke
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