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From: sccs@prls.UUCP (Source Code Control System)
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Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 reseller protection?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 22:21:28 GMT
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>>Is there any copy protection 
>>(logical, or through "hassle") in DOS 5.0?

mwilliams@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (The owls are not what they seem...) writes:
>None that I know of. 

     Are you sure ?  Anyone no for sure ?
     I used COPYCP II to make a backup copy and then tried to use the
   backups for the installation.  I got a disk error from DISK 2.  Impatient
   me didn't bother doing a VERIFY after making the copy and when the 
   error showed itself (in the middle of an install), I wasn't about to
   get nosey.  I just inserted the orginal and continued on with the install.
     If the general consensus is that MS-DOS 5.0 is not copy protected, then
   prehaps I should re-attempt making the back-ups.