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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!agate!ocf.berkeley.edu!ewylie
  2. From: ewylie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Elizabeth Wylie)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: how to put indelible serial# in resource fork of app?
  5. Message-ID: <14mtghINNqj2@agate.berkeley.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jul 92 18:24:17 GMT
  7. References: <14kh9qINNds5@agate.berkeley.edu> <peter-230792103333@134.7.50.3> <1992Jul23.145152.2441@pixel.kodak.com>
  8. Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: tornado.berkeley.edu
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  13. A good way to keep users from running software from servers is to disable
  14. the capability completely.  When an application is started, doing a
  15. GetVol(  volumeName, &fVRefNum); when the app launches retrieves the
  16. volume reference.  Use the following routine to determine if a vol ref is
  17. a network volume.
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  19.  
  20. To say the least it's a good way to piss off hundreds of your users.  Copy protection is a thing of the past.
  21.  
  22. OVERCHARGE !   OVERCHARGE !  OVERCHARGE !
  23.  
  24. E. Wylie
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