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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: GEOS 2.0 - What'a new with it?
Keywords: GEOS, need for WP, ect.
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.000950.5969@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 00:09:50 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes:

>2) DO they [GEOS 2.0] still use that STUPID copy protection scheme?
>   IE. ya "install" ya New programs on to ya disk. (ICK)

They do, but it's not a really serious problem.  The only original you need
to run from is your boot disk.  You need that to boot unless you've done
something like create a 1581 boot disk.  Thereafter, you istall the programs
on your original disk, BUT you are free to copy them to any other disk- which
you should do.  Make a work disk with geoWrite on it, don't run geoWrite from
the disk on whence it came.

I also want to second the comment earlier about the advantages of having an REU
to use with GEOS 2.0.  The difference with and without a REU is like the
difference in using the power steering in your car with and without the engine
turned on.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu