Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!rogerk
From: rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCO-ISC Serial Numbers
Message-ID: <8344@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 90 01:19:10 GMT
References: <3194@rsiatl.UUCP> <221@csinc.UUCP> <8107@scorn.sco.COM> <1990Jul19.131450.25497@pegasus.com> <1334@sixhub.UUCP>
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In article <1334@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1990Jul19.131450.25497@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
>| Then why not just serialize the software before you ship it?
>| 
>| The only difference is that your customers will stop complaining about
>| having to do your work for you.
>
>  Ican see this adding to the production costs, since the disks could
>not be mass duplicated. Not that I disagree with the intent, just that I
>would still like a way to reserialize everything on the system.

When I do mass installs for customers, we copy the unserialized stuff
and then serialize when in place. Also, we have redone the serialization
stuff so that (starting with Unix 3.2 v2, I believe) you can reserialize
an already-branded binary.

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