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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LPD Writer by Digital Solutions.. DON'T TOUCH
Message-ID: <3845@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 22:54:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 22:54:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 06:41:57 EDT
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Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <5CRONEJP@UREGINA1>, CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET writes some uncompli-
mentary remarks about the LPD writer copy protection scheme, and about how
it could very, very easily corrupt the system disk.

In case anyone has trouble believing this, the Pocket Writer programs for the
64 and 128 are the best word-processing programs on the market for those
computers, but are also the most irritating; literally dozens of them have
failed straight out of the box (just in my experience!) and many dozens more
have been formatted or written too because it wasn't laid out well enough in
the manual that you were supposed to use a *different* disk for such things.
And no write protect tabs on the disks. The ones that did run would often
fail on disk drives that were not in absolutely perfect alignment, so that
you could check it out at the store but it still wouldn't work once you took
it home.

"Boycott-the-copy-protectors" has seemed a little bit extreme to me, but in
this case of such a potentially useful product on the Amiga (and delayed so
many months for reasons that escape me: no fonts, no graphics), using a CP
scheme that killed upwards of 50 rugged 5.25" disks at ONE store on fragile 3.5"
disks is indeed so stupid as to be almost criminal. IMHO, of course.

John
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