[net.micro.trs-80] Program Piracy

mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) (03/16/85)

    We all know program piracy goes on but recently it has hit
home to me and is too close for comfort. I have written several
programs for the TRS-80/Max-80 and one of these called Hypercross
has proved fairly successful.

   In the last week I have had several calls telling me that copies
of my programs are on some of the Public bulletin boards, free for
the downloading. If anyone can confirm this and help me to remove
them I would be eternally grateful. The program would be in two
parts, the a /CMD file which might be called HX1/CMD or HX3/CMD or
HX4/CMD or HYCROS or something similar and a data file called
FORM/DAT or HPRX/DAT.

   The program is for transferring files between floppy disks from
the TRS-80, MS-DOS and CP/M machines and I have put a year of my
spare time in to it so it is not nice to see others giving away my
work for free. It is copyrighted and carries notices to that effect.

  Thanks for reading this,

      Mike Gingell,   ...decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg
             phone: (919) 847 4779