Duplicating an immovable file.

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From: Kevin A. Price
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 13:34

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Is it possible to copy an immovable file onto floppy, de-install
the immovable file and then re-copy the file into the same place
from the floppy?

The problem is that we have a 286-AT with some PCB Design software
installed. The machine is quite old and every so often it comes
up with a disk failure error. The software is protected on hard 
disk by storing the physical location of a certain file actually
in the file itself. This ensures that the file cannot be easily
copied. We would like to back-up this piece of software in some way.
Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

Kev
kap@eng.cam.ac.uk

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