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From: kawolcot@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Kenneth A. Wolcott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Need help with encrypted GW-BASIC files...
Keywords: MS-DOS, GW-BASIC, encryption, decryption, children's game, etc
Message-ID: <3837@pikes.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 29 May 90 21:17:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: pikes.3837
Organization: University of Colorado, Denver
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Hello!

Steve Pitts at the University of Colorado at Denver asked me to post a
request for help for him.  He got some software somewhere written in
GW-BASIC for his kids.  He thinks that the software could use a little
improvement -- and he'd like to enhance the code a little.  He thinks
that the GW-BASIC was saved with a ",p" option, which supposedly makes
the code unlistable (unmodifiable??) but still loadable (it is still
interpreted, not compiled)...is it possible that an older version of
MS-DOS and an older version of GW-BASIC will allow him to modify the
code?  Is there a utility which will unprotect the ",p" saved code?
He's not sure which version of GW-BASIC created the code.  (I don't
think he's totally convinced it's GW-BASIC either!)...  He's tried to
look at the file via binary read methods unsuccessfully also.  He'd
rather modify the code than to rewrite it!  He has no desire to sell or
give away the code once it is modified -- just to improve the games for
his kids...

Thanks for whatever help you can provide!

Kenneth A. Wolcott
University of Colorado at Denver
Computing Services Advising and Operations

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