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Subject: Re: Crafty not for free download anymore :-(

Author: James B. Shearer

Date: 14:44:07 03/26/99

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On March 26, 1999 at 07:47:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 25, 1999 at 23:01:48, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>You can add a checksum to the Crafty executable. I have done this myself
>>in every Rebel release. If one byte is changed then it is exit program.
>>It's also a good protection against a virus.
>>
>>Ed Schroder
>>
>
>that is a good idea...  I think I'll look at that, but exclude that tiny bit
>of code from the source releases later so that it will be _very_ hard to find
>out how / where I am doing this...
>
>thanks for the idea...
>

            I don't see the point.  Wouldn't it be easy enough to write a
program that sits between Crafty and the user (like winboard) and modify the
Crafty output at that point?
            Btw the way CompUSA sells a program called "Microshaft Winblow 98".
I doubt Bill Gates is overjoyed about this but he has not (so far as I know)
been foolish enough to try and stop them.  A lesson for us all?
                             James B. Shearer



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