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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Need help with ICD Utils
Message-ID: <5440127@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 90 19:55:32 GMT
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vovut@prism.cs.orst.edu writes:

| 
|    I have ICDUTILS which I downloaded from Terminator to format my hard drive.
| The problem is that I can't set my drive to auto-boot because the HDUTIL.PRG
| asks for the master disk.  Is there a way to get it to auto-boot?  Can someone
| e-mail me another (newer?)  ICD utility to allow my HD to auto-boot?
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (if legal)
| 
| Thanks for any help
| 
| vovut@prism.cs.orst.edu
| ----------

You know, there's probably a real good reason that HDUTIL.PRG asks for the
master disk! ICDUTILS are NOT in the public-domain, they are NOT shareware, 
they ARE copyrighted software that you are supposed to pay for.

I've said it here many times before, ICD has strict wording in their 
documentation that their software may not be placed on BBS nor may it 
be transferred from person to person, even if both parties are registered
users. The only legal way to get the software is from ICD (by mail, or 
their BBS) or on GEnie. Period. Any other way is illegal. Period. So, no,
there is no legal way anyone can mail you a newer version that works. 

It sounds to me like ICD finally wised up and realized that just saying this
wasn't enough, and now they've added some measures to protect against
pirating. Three cheers for them if that's the case.

Now, what the heck are ICDUTILS doing on Terminator?

ps. Please direct junior-lawyer legal opinions to /dev/null. They won't do
any good if ICD sics a real lawyer on the Terminator folks.

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