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From: gregp@pro-carolina.cts.com (Greg Prevost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: ALPE
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Date: 24 Oct 88 16:59:09 GMT
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> Also, the reason that there is a complicated process for downloading
> upgraded Alink software is that the password (which changes with every
> login) is saved to disk

> So, you download the new version on a NEW disk.
> Say yes when it asks you to get the password stuff from the old disk, and
> then you can login with the new software.
> The password that changes with every login feature makes the ALink software
> useable from only one disk...copies of the disk won't work, because, as soon
> as you run one of them and login, the other one's password is no longer
> valid.

> Its not copy protection, its ACCOUNT protection.

> You can copy the disk...whichever (the copy or original) is used to log in
> on will be the only one that will work the next time.
> Brendan G. Hoar
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh, PA
> bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu


Ok, if I read what you just said right then what do you do when your disk
crashes on you?  You can make a copy of it but after one login that copy will
no longer work since the password is automatically changed, so the only way to
make a backup in case of the software going bad or coffee stains is to make a
copy after each and every logon!!  Is there some way around that?  If not you
had better take that "account protection" out till you find a better way that
allows backups, because I don't feel like waiting weeks for a new password!

Greg Prevost


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