Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 04:46:06 10/17/98
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On October 16, 1998 at 13:34:53, Georg Langrath wrote: >My postage about hidden files was because a friend of mine loaded down Rebel 10. >And the he made soemthing less clever with his date on computer. When >reinstalling right date again Rebel 10 didn´t work. He tried to reinstall it >from downloaded file, but no function. He looked for the information file on >harddisk, but did not find it. Then he found that when he renamed win.ini file >Rebel10 worked again. But there was no information about Rebel 10 in win.ini! >Hidden file in win.ini? My guess would be that Rebel checks the date of win.ini to see if you've tampered with the system date somehow. BTW, this is similar to what I'd do if I had to write such a protection for a Windows program. :) However, there seems to be a hole in the protection if win.ini does not exist at all. This may be the reason why a copy of Rebel can be run on a system where it was not installed from the original CD *if* you unplug the hard-drive (or don't have any DOS/Windows partition on your HD) and boot from floppy - a CP bug I discovered months ago and mailed to the Rebel team, but it seems R10 still has it... --- Shep
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