Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 03:19:18 10/19/98
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On October 17, 1998 at 07:46:06, Kai Lübke wrote: >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 To Shep If it only looked for datemanipulations in win.ini it would be possible to reinstall from downloaded zip-file, wouldn´it? You can emty win.ini file and Rebel10 refuses to install again as long as the empty win.ini file is there. It is therefore I made the coclusion that there must be some kind of hidden information in ini file. Georg
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