🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BB70E591.30BF2%noreply@hotmail.com>,
 "M." <noreply@hotmail.com> wrote:

> When I install CW9 I need to contact Metrowerks, transmit some code, get
> some code back, and this somehow results in a file called "license.dat" on
> my harddisk. I can backup this license.dat file.

Correct.  It's just a text file.


> Now - if my computer explodes and I buy a complete new machine, then I can
> "somehow" get CW to work by using the saved license.dat file *without* any
> contact to Metroworks.
> 
> First question: Is this correct?

Correct.


> Second question: Since you said that we can't *install* a second time, but
> *copy* - does this mean that license.dat won't work with a clean install
> from the original CD?

There is no longer an "installer" per-se for the tools.  It's just a 
drag install off the CD.  The license.dat file that comes on the CD is 
limited, so when you overwrite it with your full license.dat, everything 
is unlocked.


> In other words - in order to sleep safe, do I need to backup the entire
> *installed* CW (probably immediately *after* being installed and including
> license.dat) in order to have the chance to "install" it without Metrowerks'
> interference on the new computer when the old one exploded? Is this correct?

You really just need to backup the license.dat file.  Everything else 
comes on the CD which you can reinstall from at any time.


> Third question: If question2 is "yes", how difficult is it to locate all
> files that really belong to CW - in theory, the files may be spread around
> zillion places, and the task to backup every single bit and re-place it on a
> new computer may be non-trivial.

They're all in one big folder that you drag off the CD.  The license.dat 
file lives inside there, just as it always has since Pro 5.