DCOPY20.ARC is a hoax

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From: Bill Silvert
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1987 14:24

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I keep running into DCOPY20.ARC on file servers and BBS's.  It is a hoax.
Someone has taken DCOPY19.ARC and changed two bytes ONLY so that the
screen header says 2.0 instead of 1.9.  (You can check this with cmp -l).
The documentation files are absolutely identical in every way.

This not only wastes time by people trying to upgrade, but it doesn't
work right -- DCOPY supports three modes of operation by checking for
the file name DCOPY19.??? and acting differently for .PRG, .TOS, and .TTP
extensions.  If you call it DCOPY20.??? it gets confused and may not
work as it is supposed to.

I have checked DCOPY20 from three sources, and all are fraudulent.  So
delete it from your archives and be suspicious if it shows up again.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Modelling/Statistics Group, Biological Sciences Branch
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: DCOPY20.ARC is a hoax
Keywords: fraud joke Trojan
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Date: 9 Dec 87 14:24:29 GMT
Organization: Modelling/Statistics Group, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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