Re: copy protection flame

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From: Nick Lawes
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1986 19:23

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In article <224@drivax.UUCP> holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) writes:
>I copied Rogue over to my hard disk, and it runs fine from there, although
>it requires the original disk in 'A'... it just accesses it for a couple
>of seconds. Also, you can only save files to the original disk! But at
>least the loading time is slashed, especially for those l-o-n-g picture
>files.

Have you tried changing the default path in the item selector box?

Just click the mouse on the path, hit <ESC> to clear the field, then type C:
Having done this (before hitting return) click on the menu-bar between the
path and the file list, and hey presto... you can save on the hard disk.

At least, it does work on a ramdisk (D:)...

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|   Nick Lawes (Knowledge Based Systems Centre, South Bank Polytechnic)    |
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| ..mcvax!ukc!hrc63!kbsc!lawesn | Bug?  What Bug?  Oh, that's a FEATURE... |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   Nick Lawes (Knowledge Based Systems Centre, South Bank Polytechnic)    |
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| ..mcvax!ukc!hrc63!kbsc!lawesn | Bug?  What Bug?  Oh, that's a FEATURE... |
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References: <246@bath63.UUCP> <224@drivax.UUCP>

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From: lawesn@SouthBank.UUCP (Nick Lawes)
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Subject: Re: copy protection flame
Message-ID: <491@SouthBank.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 14:23:59 EST
Article-I.D.: SouthBan.491
Posted: Mon Nov 10 14:23:59 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Nov-86 20:51:54 EST
References: <246@bath63.UUCP> <224@drivax.UUCP>
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