Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 reseller protection? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 19:22:12 GMT References: <18JUN91113452@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> <51225@prls.UUCP> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Distribution: world,local Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org sccs@prls.UUCP (Source Code Control System) writes: >>>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. You should try again. We got an early production copy (which I checked and found to be bit-for-bit identical to the production copy now in the stores); in moving it around from machine to machine for testing we copied the disks and had no problems running from the copies. Oh yes...the copies were made with DISKCOPY. Joe Morris