Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!bu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Is 4d (Fourth Dimension) on Mac better than ALL? Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 91 22:49:06 GMT References: <19464@netcom.UUCP> <1991Jan3.220828.2734@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <42090@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 20 In comp.sys.mac.programmer, article <42090@ut-emx.uucp>, awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: < In article <1991Jan3.220828.2734@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> a_dent@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes about 4D: < >- enforces key disk copy protection (UNFORGIVEABLE!!!) < < I usually think of key disk protection as requiring insertion of the master disk < when the application is run. I just ran 4D and it doesn't. It doesn't always ask -- the application modifies one of its resources after a successful disk check. (At least 4D 1.x did that; don't know about the newer versions.) Another explanation might be that some companies ship their programs without copy protection only in the US, and any localized version does use copy protection. (I don't know if ACI(US) does it that way, but some other companies apparently do. Too much negative criticism from reviewers...) -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49+721+621127(0700-2330) \o)/