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- From: CJMQ00C@prodigy.com (George Zema)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Question: Hardware key
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 03:46:25 GMT
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- Is it possible to write a patch that would prevent a program on start up
- from going out to look for a hardware key attached to LPT1? If so, what
- would a person look for in the code? Can this be done via Debug? I'm
- dealing with an older program, bought and paid for, that's long out of
- circulation so there's no support available and it requires this stupid
- hardware key. I'd get rid of the program if I didn't like it so much.
-
- I'm not conversant in C at all but can muddle my way through Debug. I do
- have access to a C compiler and am willing to jump in with both feet so I
- can learn something.
-
- Thanks.
-
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