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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: low-budget spreadsheet - summary of responses
Message-ID: <94898@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 89 18:24:03 GMT
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In article <37578@think.UUCP>, ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
> Well, here are *my* comments.  I don't believe this for several
> reasons.
> 
> 	1. The version of Multiplan distributed in 1984 was copy-
> 	   protected.  I'd be amazed if the copy-protection scheme
> 	   still worked.

Well, the "copy protection" on early MS Mac software wasn't what
you'd call pathological, exactly...

Somewhere on the disk was a file, with no data, invisible and
locked (or maybe invis/protected) with an odd name.  Word had
one name, Multiplan's another, and so on.  If the application
couldn't find the file in question on its disk, then it assumed
the disk was a copy and spit it out.

Wouldn't stop anyone determined to run the program, and only
irritated paying customers who wanted to use their software 
on a hard disk or the like.

As for other reasons it might break on newer machines and/or
versions of the finder/system, I won't speculate.
	seh