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From:Richard Friend
Date:29 Jun 2001 at 20:49:30
Subject:Re: Dongles

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Werchowiecki <healthent@iprimus.com.au>
>
> I'm sorry, I'm lost now. I thought that everyone was calling some kind of
> expansion thing a 'dongle' in jest. Is it actually called a dongle? What
IS
> it?
>
If I remember correctly, a dongle is a piece of circuitry that is added to a
port (ie a serial port) that acts as a keyfile! It prevents people from
copying and passing on software keyfiles!

I may be wrong, of course, but I'm sure it's something like that!

Richy
http://www.aminutz.org.uk
ICQ 18894975
mailto:richy@aminutz.org.uk

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