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***** WARNING ! ***** WARNING ! ***** WARNING ! ***** WARNING ! *****
Any attempt to alter, decompile, reverse engineer or in way change this
program (without the expressed written permission of the the author of this
program is forbidden, strictly illegal and is in fact a violation of federal
copyright law.
You may ask why I am including a separate file now that states this warning.
Well its simple. Some moron has decided to write a "utility" that will
de-compile PPES's. Obviously this basically makes all of the PPE authors
registration schemes just about worthless. I employ a VERY simple scheme, I
don't load the code down with checks to see if its been altered. I rely on
the fact the most of the PCBoard Sysop's out there are honest, and would pay
for a program that is well written and does something they need it to do.
I don't write this program to become rich. I have had about 100 or so people
register it though. Since most of those people registered during the earlier
$5.00 registration days, all little quick math will tell you that I haven't
gotten rich off of this project. On top of this I do provide voice support
for the program. And just about every feature I have been asked to add has
been added.
So all I ask is that if you use the program, register it. Hell, your first
subscription just about pays for the program !!
On top of all of that, now (thanks to this programming wizard who developed
this de-compiler) now you have no idea what or who has had his/her fingers in
the PPE's you're running. As it used to be, if something went wrong with the
PPE at least you knew who to blame. Now, someone could download a copy of
this or any other PPE and quickly write a little routine, that when run would
write out a .BAT file that uses your PCBDRIVE environment setting and simply
format your disk drive...... and then just upload the program under a new
version name to Salt Air or your favorite BBS.
So, I would strongly recommend that you obtain the PPE's that you run
directly from the source. Or, maybe use a disk editor on the PPE's you run
and look for statements such as shell. This command is used to run other
programs, or .bat file under PPE control. If you don't see any reason for
the PPE to be doing something like that, I would suggest NOT running the
program until you contact the author of the program.
Well, I guess its about time to step down off of my soapbox. I just wanted
you to understand that this "de-compiler" is out there, and that you should be
very careful with your systems. Even though Clark Development has added some
encryption to PPL compiler there has been said to be a new version of this
"decompiler" that will decompile the PPE's to source code. Although the
variables are renamed it is possible to mess around in the source code.