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From: pm0@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Patrick Martin)
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Subject: Re: Dongles to defeat piracy
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Date: 21 Dec 90 04:48:41 GMT
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I agree.  Dongles are a major pain in the butt.  I have only had one
program that used a dongle and while it did defeat alot of the piracy,
it was a major pain for us.  It fit into the joystick port 2 and it
seemed like I could never find it when I needed it.

Just what does a dongle do?  It seemed that there was nothing to this
thing.  There were some of the holes which matched the prongs which were
covered in metal and others which were not.  Is there some kind of
integrated chip in there which contains information vital to the program
or is there nothing to it?

Pat