Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 12:00:21 10/15/98
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On October 15, 1998 at 14:05:48, John Coffey wrote: >On October 15, 1998 at 10:09:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 14, 1998 at 02:52:46, Georg Langrath wrote: >> >>>There is a lot of programs which can be used only a couple of days, like >>>downloaded Rebel 10. As you often can´t reuse them after reinstalling there must >>>be hidden information on harddisk. Is it right to hide information on my >>>harddisk that will be left there for ever? Can I be sure that it doesn´t harm >>>other programs in any way? >>> >>>Of course you can choose not to use them, but that wasn´t the question. >>> >>>Georg >> >>I would hope that *no* program/programmer would be so obnoxious as to >>write oddball files into oddball directories, to make them difficult to >>find. IE if you create a directory "XX" and install something there, >>creating hidden files would be fine, *in* directory XX or any sub-directory >>under it. But putting a hidden file in say the \windows or \windows\system >>directory ought to be a hanging offense everywhere in the world... > > >Well many programs write stuff to the system registery, and those entries >stay around forever, and maybe windows is suppose to work that way. > >I am wanting to write a shareware program (with a low registration fee) with >the idea that the user can run it 100 times before the rating of the thing >would start to become very limited. So how do I keep people from just >re-installing the software and running it 100 new times? I need to be able >to put information someplace that isn't going to go away if the user deletes >the software. (Have a 100 run limit isn't going to be much use if the user >can easily defeat the mechanism.) > >I can put information in the system registery, but a clever user can use >regedit to delete that information. So I need a backup someplace. My >intentions were to do exactly what you have suggested should be a hanging >offense. I was going to put files in \windows and \windows\system. I could >make the files hidden. > >The net harm in this is nothing. The extra files might cost 8K. (Hard disk >space is about 3 cents a meg.) > >My plans are to write both a chess playing program and a database. I already >have the database written, but I need a windows interface, which I am going to >start working on soon. > >John Coffey Hi John, I think, if you go shareware, you should trust the people who download your program. Personally I would honor any agreement made by downloading and installing a shareware program. If you ever port your program to Solaris, let me know! José.
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