pervect@bsu-cs.UUCP (Barrett Kreiner) (03/14/88)
Hi there.. It's the guy who knows !@#$ about EGA :-) . Nop, no more queries about THAT.. My boss has asked me to post for her.. What we are looking for is a low cost way to protect disks from being copied, either via diskcopy or copy *.*. CopyIIpc protection is a dream, (heck, LOTUS can't do that) but how about CopyWrite? (yes, we still use that!). I know there was a discussion waybackwhen about it, but I didn't hear anything more about it. If you have information, please respond, 'cuz we're getting a little desperate. P.S. NO BIG MESSAGES to my account PLEASE. (sysop's on my back) |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Barrett Kreiner UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!pervect | | Software tech, (promotion)|-----------------------------------------------| | Ball State U. Muncie, IN | "I'll tell ya kid, the main problem with | |---------------------------| Pervish food is keeping the goo from crawling | | out of the bowl while you're eating it"| TOON: THE game for modern times | | CGA: Cute Greenback Accumulator EGA: ENHANCED Greenback Accumulator | | Disclamer: "I don't know them! I'm a student, nobody listens to ME!" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (03/15/88)
If you just want to prevent a casual DOS copy, format your disk
with a different number of secors/track or bytes/sector. If you
choose an appropriate format, you can easily modify the disk
parameters for reading the disk, then set them back for normal
360K disks. This won't fool even the simpler copy programs.
Mike Berger
Department of Statistics
Science, Technology, and Society
University of Illinois
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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