Is it possible to Read a Value from another EXE-file?

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From: PC Hua
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:02

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In my project there are 2 executable files A and B. I want to make sure 
that the user has a copy of A when he runs B (just for license reason).
Can I define data (for identification) in A which can be read from B?

Alternatively, I will call A from B and A will return a value to identify 
itself.
How do I make A knows it's called by B so that A will only return a value 
instead of running the program?

Another solution would be checking e.g. date and size of A. But I don't 
know how to access those information of A in compile time of B.

Any other suggestion?

thanks
Phuoc Can HUA

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