Re: PCtools upgrade

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From: john John Beaudin
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1989 22:15

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boba@hpwarau.hp.com (Bob Alexander) writes:

>comp.binaries.ibm.pc?  As I understand it, the upgrade is encrypted and
>only PCTools 5.1 can decrypt it, so only current owners would be able to
>make use of the upgrade.

Not so. Anybody can make a copy of PCTools 5.0 and then use it to decrypt
5.5 (:-).

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From: john@compugen. (John Beaudin)
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Subject: Re: PCtools upgrade
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Date: 28 Nov 89 22:15:43 GMT
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