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From: scotth@grebyn.com (Scott Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Read without Copy
Message-ID: <14126@grebyn.com>
Date: 9 Jan 90 15:30:57 GMT
References: <852@gator.usl.edu>
Reply-To: scotth@grebyn.UUCP (Scott Hutchinson)
Organization: VANCE Systems Inc, Chantilly, VA, USA
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In article <852@gator.usl.edu> pcb@gator.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>We are using Novell on a network of 30 IBM PS/2s and have two servers.
>I know this question might stem from problems with DOS but anyway...
>   IS there a way to allow a user to execute a program without being
>   able to copy it?
>We have  software binaries (C compiler, windows sdk, dbase4 ...) for
>educational use but do not want the students to be able to copy the binaries.

	Unfortunatly not, at least under Netware 2.X.  Perhaps under
Netware 386's new protections, the problem I believe stems from DOS as
you suspect.  Out of curiosity, why worry about it?  most of these
programs are not copy protected in the first place, so even if you did a
checkout system, people would be able to copy them.  Really it doesn't
seem like it is really the University's problem to enforce the copy
protection anyway.