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Article #155Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?
From: Harald Ljoen FBA
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 16:37
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 16:37
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In article <4NOV199208585485@zeus.tamu.edu>, sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu writes: >In article <125@complex.complex.is>, frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes... >>It would only work if the user copied your software with a COPY comand... >>if he used DISKCOPY or any disk-duplication software, the serial number >>would be copied as well. >> > >I use DOS 5.0, and my DISKCOPY creates a new S/N on the destination floppy. >Which DISKCOPY are you using? Serial numbers were introduced in DOS 4.0. DISKCOPYs from earlier DOS versions makes an *exact* copy of the original. Well,... at least it's *exact* if the original is a standard DOS formatted diskette... and there are no errors on neither the original nor the copy. -- ** Also sprach harald.ljoeen@nta.no **
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!nntp.nta.no!hal.nta.no!hlj From: hlj@hal.nta.no (Harald Ljoen FBA) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.163758.8357@nntp.nta.no> Date: 4 Nov 92 16:37:58 GMT References: <1992Nov3.163821.3971@msdhsv.ingr.com> <125@complex.complex.is> <4NOV199208585485@zeus.tamu.edu> Sender: news@nntp.nta.no Reply-To: harald.ljoeen@nta.no Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: rimne.nta.no