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sccs@prls.UUCP (Source Code Control System) writes:

>>>Is there any copy protection 
>>>(logical, or through "hassle") in DOS 5.0?

>mwilliams@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (The owls are not what they seem...) writes:
>>None that I know of. 

>     Are you sure ?  Anyone no for sure ?
>     I used COPYCP II to make a backup copy and then tried to use the
>   backups for the installation.  I got a disk error from DISK 2.  Impatient
>   me didn't bother doing a VERIFY after making the copy and when the 
>   error showed itself (in the middle of an install), I wasn't about to
>   get nosey.  I just inserted the orginal and continued on with the install.
>     If the general consensus is that MS-DOS 5.0 is not copy protected, then
>   prehaps I should re-attempt making the back-ups.

You should try again.  We got an early production copy (which I checked and
found to be bit-for-bit identical to the production copy now in the stores);
in moving it around from machine to machine for testing we copied the disks
and had no problems running from the copies.

Oh yes...the copies were made with DISKCOPY.

Joe Morris