Wiedemann.4506i1808%radc-multics@sri-unix.UUCP (10/21/83)
I have recently upgraded systems from the Heathkit H-89 to the H-120. I fully expected all 8080 CP/M software to be useable on the new machine. I found that the Microsoft Basic Compiler (BASCOM) will not function correctly. Does anyone have the patch necessary to allow this to work under CP/M-85?
w8sdz%brl@sri-unix.UUCP (10/21/83)
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@brl> If you bought your BASCOM directly from Heath it contains a routine that checks to make sure it's running under Heath's implementation of CP/M. Since you changed operating systems, this would not return the correct information and would prevent the program from running. This patch was done by Heath to prevent non-Heath users from buying Microsoft programs from Heath and running them on non-Heath systems. Heath sells Microsoft programs cheaper than you can get them elsewhere. Contact Heath for patching details. They may be unwilling to provide this information if you are trying to use the same software on two systems (software is licensed for only one machine). If you decide to try to find the routine yourself, look at it with DDT to see what BASCOM does after you enter it at 100H. --Keith
RMS.G.EH%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA (10/22/83)
From: Edward Huang <RMS.G.EH%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA> Hello, the Heath BASCOM has a security patch so that it could only be run under Heath H89 systems -- I am not yet accustomed to the new SIMTEL system so you may want to ask someone on retreiving it. I belive its in a note along with FORTRAN and MACRO-80 patches. good luck. -------
POURNE%mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP (10/24/83)
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc> As INFOWORLD said this week: If Van Nostrand charged you $100 for the Science Encyclopedia and then said only one person in your househoud could read it, what would be the likely result? The Constitution forbids monopolies, except under some stringent circumstances to encourage the useful arts. Copyright law certainly won't protect that "one user" nonsense. There is certainly no ethical reason why I should pay police and FBI to prevent two people from using the same book...
BANDY%mit-ml@sri-unix.UUCP (11/03/83)
From: Andrew Scott Beals <BANDY@mit-ml> . . . if anyone remembers, long, long ago, someone broadcasted a patch to the Osborne version of BASCOM that fixed the "security" bug. The fix should be fairly trivial, as the patch that you needed to make in the Osborne version was within the first 1/4k of the code (after, of course, it jumped up around the data area, as microsoft's linker likes to arrange things). You should have to spend only 15 minutes looking at the file with ddt. Yours for insecurity, Andy (-: