Re: How could I copy protect Borland C++ on a network ?

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From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:54

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bussiere@garrot.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres) writes:

>Is there a way to protect Borland C++ from pirating on an nfs disk? 

Does NFS provide read-but-not-search access to a directory?  That is,
allow programs to find files by name within the directory, but do not
allow listing or searching the directory.  Thus a student could not go
to the directory and type COPY *.* to get all the files.

Borland C++ unfortuantely does require read access to its files (not
just execute access) because of its overlay management scheme.

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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: How could I copy protect Borland C++ on a network ?
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:54:43 GMT
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