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From: boba@hpwarau.hp.com (Bob Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PCtools upgrade
Message-ID: <544@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
Date: 30 Nov 89 13:34:30 GMT
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>>                     As I understand it, the upgrade is encrypted and
>>only PCTools 5.1 can decrypt it, so only current owners would be able to
>>make use of the upgrade.
>
>Not so. Anybody can make a copy of PCTools 5.0 and then use it to decrypt
>5.5 (:-).

Pardonnez moi.  Let me rephrase: only current owners and current pirates
can use the upgrade.  But anyone who has an illegal copy of 5.0 can
probably get an illegal copy of 5.5 anyway.

The upgrade to 5.5 is, I think, about 900K compressed.  Since CPS will
send you the upgrade for ~$20, it's probably not worth dialing up their
BBS and paying the phone charges while you download.  I would also
understand if Rahul doesn't want to post 900K of code for a limited
audience (as one person commented to me via mail.)  (Although, in a
sense, each posting is for a limited audience, since many people won't
be interested in a particular application.) But I figured it couldn't
hurt to ask...

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