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- From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
- Subject: Mac-IN-DOS - a commercial software (fwd)
- Summary: MAC-DOS.ZIP is pirated and possibly dangerous
- Message-ID: <9207212137.AA20591@tacom-emh1.army.mil>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:37:25 GMT
- Sender: news@tacom-emh1.army.mil (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
- Distribution: world
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
- Lines: 36
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- majid-fazal@MATH.YALE.EDU (Fazal Majid) wrote:
- > [...] I believe that removing MAC-DOS.ZIP from the SIMTEL20
- > archives is not a good idea, since the program is genuinely useful for
- > people who have to transfer data from Mac to PC.
-
- Fazal, MAC-DOS.ZIP is pirated. That's the reason it was removed from
- SIMTEL20 two months ago. Who knows what kind of time bombs the pirate
- may have put into CLINK.EXE? I suggest you delete it immediately.
- See the forwarded message below for further information.
-
- Please send questions or comments to: pacmicro@cup.portal.com
-
- Keith
- --
- Keith Petersen
- Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20]
- Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu
- Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
-
- ---Forwarded message:
- > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 18:17:44 PDT
- > To: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
- > From: pacmicro@cup.portal.com (Pacific Micro)
- > Subject: Mac-IN-DOS - a commercial software
- > Message-Id: <9207201817.4.15849@cup.portal.com>
- >
- > Hi Mr. Keith Petersen
- >
- > Mac-IN-DOS developed by Pacific Micro that allows PC to read, write &
- > format Macintosh data files via diskettes and vice versa is a coomercial
- > software. It was reported that Mac-IN-DOS was hacked and illegally posted
- > in many BBS and archives. it was posted in mirror/msdos/dskutl of
- > WUARCHIVE and was recently removed. Chris told us to contact you that
- > Mac-IN-DOS may still in your archive. If so, please kindly remove it and
- > inform your users to contact Pacific Micro (415) 948-6200 for a legal copy
- > with special pricing. Thanks Wun
-