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From: Louis Mandelstam
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:33

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 > Actually, assemblers have their own way of producing
 > executables, too.
 > There is a share-ware assembler (I think it is called
 > A86) that even
 > says that it creates opcodes different from other
 > assemblers.  This
 > way, the author can sue unregistered owners for not
 > registering.

Any court that accepts THAT as evidence needs a 1 exavolt discharge in the right place..

What if the programmer created the executable in DEBUG, hand-changed some of the bytes in the executable after linking or <gulp> did it in machine language?

Cheers
The Poltergeist


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