Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc6.ucsd.edu!cg108dbd From: cg108dbd@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Steve -Social Hacker) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: How to protect an MS/PC-DOS file from being copied or the diskette. Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 05:38:32 GMT References: <1991May18.175819.26629@cm.cf.ac.uk> <688@bcsfse.boeing.com> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: University of California, San Diego -- Cognitive A. I. Lines: 29 In-reply-to: danr@bcsfse.boeing.com's message of 22 May 91 15:55:28 GMT Originator: cg108dbd@icogsci1 In article <688@bcsfse.boeing.com> danr@bcsfse.boeing.com (Dan Richardson) writes: Protecting a file/diskette on DOS, huh? Well, I would assume that this file is [usual attempts to complicate things, deleted] Anybody else in Netland know of a better scheme? This is off the top of my head *early* in the morning. I need a shot of caffeine... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Richardson | "If there's anything more important than my Analysts International Corp. | ego around here, I want it caught and shot for Boeing Computer Services | now!" --Zaphod Beeblebrox ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "My opinions are not necessarily those of either my clients or my employers." ============================================================================== A _BETTER_ scheme??? How about giving up on the futile attempt to inconvenience the users of the software and offer them an incentive to buy it instead? Like product support, excellent documentation, upgrades.... tired of juggling four key disks into A: and looking for the dongle, -Steve "If it has a key-hole, it can be picked." -- }>> Steve Haehnichen <<{ shaehnichen@ucsd.edu Disclaimer: UCSD and I do not share any opinions.