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Subject: Re: Why was this unnecessary "update installer" created?!

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 01:22:23 03/09/04

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On March 09, 2004 at 03:31:52, F. Huber wrote:

>>Hi Dave,
>>
>>As far as I can see the installer is the only protection.
>>
>>I had to re-install my Windows today and I had all the files on a separate
>>partition, and they seem to play just fine in Winboard and Arena.
>>
>>Peter
>
>That´s not correct, Peter!
>
>Both, the installer AND the engine have protection procedures,
>which _should_ correspond to each other -
>but because they actually _don´t_ (e.g. for special characters in the
>computer name or user name), these update problems occured on some systems.
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Hi Franz,

What I was speaking about is _after_ the update, there is no protection. If the
updater passes the copyprotection, and the new files are created the cd is no
longer needed.

I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem that way on my computer.

Peter.



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