🚀 go-pugleaf

> Some things have broken under HFS.  My version of CopyIIMac doesn't work
> (I'll fix that today), but that was expected.  Because of this, though,
> I'm back to using Key disks for Word and File until I can reinstall them
> without the damned idiotic stupid irritating dumb dumb dumb assinine copy
> protection.

There are ways around this.  Do you remember that set of "patch files" for
some backup program that were posted to net.sources.mac a few months ago?
While it would obviously be more convenient to have the backup program do
the work, you can change the type of a patch file to 'TEXT', and using a
disk editor and the documentation on the command types that was included,
apply the patches by hand to obtain an unprotected version of the program
being modified that can be copied to a 400 or 800K floppy, hard disk, etc.
One program for which patches were supplied is Microsoft WORD.

Of course, Microsoft's "License Agreement" says that one is not to modify
their software, but I don't think that it has any possible legal standing,
since one never sees it until after the sale.  (Offering to undo the sale
if you don't like the terms hardly makes the "license" legal in my humble
opinion; if it's your disk, you can damn well break the seal if you feel
like it without agreeing to anything).  They still have copyright on the
software, of course, which should adequately protect them against thieves.

The "License Agreement" that Dreams of the Phoenix uses is similarly bogus,
but at least they seem to act reasonably in other respects (their software
isn't copy protected, and I recently got a card in the mail announcing the
HFS version of Q&D Utils V1; the upgrade fee is $2 (or $5 if one wants the
new manual as well as the new software)).

Long live unprotected software!  Bankruptcy to all who promote copy protection!

                                        -- Thomas Newton