Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 07:37:09 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 09:38:34, Harald Faber wrote: >On August 26, 1999 at 06:00:04, Andrew Dados wrote: > >>On August 26, 1999 at 05:38:08, Micheal Cummings wrote: >> >>>On August 26, 1999 at 05:13:32, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >>> >>>>There are two severe mistakes in your posting: >>>> >>>>first the term hacking: to modify a code is not necessarely to hack it >>>> >>>>second: it is not illegal in some countries (esp. in Europe) under some >>>>conditions (and it is not needed to ask for permission) >>>> >>>>ciao >>>>Franz >>> >>>If the copyright of the program says you cannot alter it then you cannot, so >>>does that mean if you belong to one of these countries it gives you the right to >>>post on here and say hey Ed (Rebel) stuff you, here is the crack for everyone to >>>use to crack your program and use it for free. >>> >>>I do not think so, I doubt very much that any country allows cracking or hacking >>>of programs, I know for one thing that Microsoft does not want anyone touching >>>their operating system or altering it. >>> >>>you say under some conditions, well this is a condition where you have to ask >>>before you do. >>> >>>As for hacking, it mean getting into the program to either alter or change it, >>>otherwise there is no need to hack a program. So I think your two points are not >>>clear. >> >> Duh... here we go again... >>I will repeat myself: *noone talked about modifying CM file* (in fact it would >>be impossible probably). We were discussing writing external adapter for King >>engine... > >For The King is implemented in the CMXX.EXE you need to hack this .EXE file and >can't extract an engine file like .dll or .eng > >Consider every change in the program code is called hacking, at least if you are >not allowed to do so. FYI: exe, dll and eng are all the same file format... (try renaming *.eng to exe and running it...). While *.eng are in fact dlls and can't be run as standalone programs ( only difference between dll and exe ), you can not 'hack' exe file to behave like dll or vice versa. All you can do is to write external program acting as adapter - in analogous way as winboard can 'connect' 2 external engine exe files. Would you claim that Tim Mann hacks all engines to work with winboard? -Andrew-
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