From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 16:50:45 +0800
To: Erle Greer <erleg@sdinter.net>
Subject: Re: Word lists for passphrases
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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Erle Greer wrote:

> Word-List Builder  (this is not an ad)
> I have a small(5k) program(WordList.EXE) that will extract <words> from any
> file and append the new words to a textfile(MainList.TXT).  It is in early
> beta, but does the job nicely.  I simply drag-n-drop multiple files onto the
> icon and let it do its dirty work.  It prints new words to the screen and
> echos "." when it encounters old words again.  It will, of course, accept
> parameters from DOS.

     Is the source code available for porting to other platforms?

> This is totally free to anyone who wants it.  Just email and I will send the
> latest version.  Suggestions are certainly considered.

     Unixi, recursively scanning directories. 

> Imagine building a word-list just from your /Netscape/Cache subdirectory!

     Imagine building a word list from /usr/spool/news/*


Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com