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In article <shephard.724811384@sfu.ca> shephard@fraser.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard) writes:
>cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips) writes:
>>Luc Bussieres (bussiere@garrot.DMI.USherb.CA) wrote:
>>: Is there a way to protect Borland C++ from pirating on an nfs disk? 
>>: 
>>: Does novell as a copy protection feature that will work with Borland C++?
>
>1) Execute-Only on Novell is horrendous as you are no longer
>   able to back up the Execute Only files.  Unacceptable.

	Who is "you"?  The question is how to PREVENT the user from
	pirating the software.  If the network (or application) administrator
	can't back it up, I agree that's unacceptable.  But if the USER
	can't back it up (but rather has to run it from the network copy)
	that's exactly what was being requested.

	As a user, I might not be crazy about this, especially if the network
	is less than 100% reliable, but I could always buy my own (non-copy
	protected) copy.

	Remember that the legitimate owner of the software (the network
	or application administrator) still has the installation disks
	and whatever backup copies of it that they made, so the backup
	issue is really a non-issue.

>3) Try experimenting with the Hidden attribute.  A DOS Copy won't
>   work with a hidden files, but you can execute it.

	True, but it is more inconvenient for the user than the pirate.
	The user can't "dir" the files if he/she forgets the name of a
	command.  But the pirate CAN type a hidden file.  What's the
	effective difference between
		copy  hidden.fil myfile
	and
		type  hidden.file  >  myfile

	The latter does in fact work.

BTW, I oppose copy-protected software in general, and will avoid buying any
that I know is copy-protected.  But that's not what is being requested here.
The original poster, who has bought a legitimate copy of BC++, wants to make
it available for USE by students taking a course.  His/her agreement with
Borland (I'm guessing here; I HOPE there's an agreement with Borland) allows
this but insists that there be no copies of the software walking away with
the students.  Assuming Borland has indeed agreed to this, I see no problem
with it.

Dave