Author: William H Rogers
Date: 13:06:20 10/16/98
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John I just thought of an idea you could try. It requires that you have an install program that only works off floppy disk. Now assuming that your program is compressed i.e. pkzip or something else, you should have a flag set in your program set to 0 (zero). Then you create another copy with the flag set to 1(one). Do a search of the two files and find the one data piece that has changed. Now you can create a way to write to the compressed files while they are still on the original floppy and after they have been installed once, they will not be able to install them again. It might take some trial and error work, but I am sure that it can be done. After all, when a person is installing a program, the floppy is lit whether it is reading or writing a file. If you cannot write to the floppy, you can cancel the install. If this works, it might be made available to all. Give me your feed back. Thanks Bill
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