At 9:01 PM -0400 5/2/02, Ron & Tamara wrote: >Wait a minute! Are you telling me that no matter how many letters are in my >password that the OS will show 8 dots?! That's what's happening to me!! I >always see 8 dots, no matter what I do. Why in the world would the OS do >such a dumb thing like that??? I don't think it did this in previous >versions...
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