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From: erik@gogoman.sf.ca.us (Erik Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
Message-ID: <8@gogoman.sf.ca.us>
Date: 1 May 91 05:39:49 GMT
References: <1165@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de> <91V712w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: Erik's Adventure Ranch
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Marc Unangst writes:
>ralfi@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de (Ralf U. Holighaus) writes:
>> You could do so with SCO, and then usr /etc/brand for the system speci-
>> fic files to 'brand' the new system to the new serial numbers.
>
>No, you can't.  "brand" does just what its name implies -- it brands
>the file permanently with a serial number.  It's impossible to
>re-brand a file.
Curious.   The troubleshooting tips in my SCO documentation
tell me how to use /etc/brand to rebrand an object file.

This is the second inaccurate flame about SCO I've seen today.
Do you guys make any attempt to verify the things you bitch
about or do you just make this s*it up?

-- Erik