Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:32:10 08/13/99
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On August 12, 1999 at 21:31:37, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >Hiarcs uses "Volume Serial Number" (VSN) of the hard >disk volume where it was installed to encrypt several >files in a hidden directory (which it puts inside >hiarcs6 directory). When you run it, it gets the >volume serial number (a 32 bit number from MS-DOS call >int 21h, ax=440D, subf. 66h), decrypts the files and >is happy until you unload it. > >So to install it on your NT Server, you would install >it on a DOS machine, then copy manually the hidden >directory (and its hidden subdirectories) to the NT >volume, and install a small TSR (in asm it would take >a hundred bytes at most) which will fake the MS-DOS >Get VSN call (440D,66; which NT ignores on non FAT >drives) and return the same VSN as the DOS drive >had. Can I conclude that Hiarcs _would_ run under NT correctly if installed on a FAT filesystem instead of an NTFS one? Dave
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