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Article #1151Re: Need help with old program
From: Tom Guptill
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 23:24
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 23:24
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Thanks to everyone who responded. I didn't entirely explain my problem to begin with: - The program _is_ copy protected, and you _can't_ fool it into installing itself onto a floppy disk. - Installing it on the HD of the machine in question is not an option. It needs to be able to run from a floppy. - It's currently on what NDD identifies as a 320K diskette. (8 sectors/track) with some unreadable (i.e. copy protected) sectors. CopyWrite will copy it. Diskcopy will not. COPYIIPC will not. ANADISK will not. CopyWrite doesn't recognize 3.5" media. - I've gotten in touch with IBM customer service (who were VERY helpful. I was pleasantly surprised.) Apparently after production was stopped but before rights to the program were returned to PFS (now owned by Spinnaker) they released a 3.5" version to run on the PS/2. I'm currently trying to hunt down this program through IBM dealers in the area. I'm still looking at all possible solutions, so if somebody comes up with a really cool solution, drop me a line. (If nothing else, I've heard all kinds of creative ways to circumvent copy protection :-) ) Thanks for all of the help. -- |Tom Guptill | tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | |CPU Box 277445 U of R | tgpt_ltd@db1.cc.rochester.edu | |Rochester, NY 14627 | | |(716) 274-0351 | |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!tgpt_ltd From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted Subject: Re: Need help with old program Message-ID: <1992Aug15.232455.15014@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 15 Aug 92 23:24:55 GMT References: <t67m2tk.dman@netcom.com> <w67mw4k.dman@netcom.com> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: uhura.cc.rochester.edu