Author: John Coffey
Date: 11:34:10 10/17/98
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On October 16, 1998 at 16:06:20, William H Rogers wrote: >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 My goal here is to have files that can be downloaded and passed around freely. What I would like is to allow the user to be able to run the program 100 times before running into limitations. I would like for the user to not be able to bypass this by deleting and re-installing the software. This means putting something in the Windows Registry most likely, and maybe 1 or 2 hidden files. (By the way, date will not be an issue, but the number of times the program is run will be.) John Coffey
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