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- From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
- Subject: Re: Need help with old program
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.232455.15014@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 23:24:55 GMT
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- Thanks to everyone who responded. I didn't entirely explain my problem to
- begin with:
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- - The program _is_ copy protected, and you _can't_ fool it into
- installing itself onto a floppy disk.
-
- - Installing it on the HD of the machine in question is not an
- option. It needs to be able to run from a floppy.
-
- - It's currently on what NDD identifies as a 320K diskette. (8
- sectors/track) with some unreadable (i.e. copy protected) sectors.
- CopyWrite will copy it. Diskcopy will not. COPYIIPC will not. ANADISK
- will not. CopyWrite doesn't recognize 3.5" media.
-
- - I've gotten in touch with IBM customer service (who were VERY
- helpful. I was pleasantly surprised.) Apparently after production was
- stopped but before rights to the program were returned to PFS (now owned by
- Spinnaker) they released a 3.5" version to run on the PS/2. I'm currently
- trying to hunt down this program through IBM dealers in the area.
-
- I'm still looking at all possible solutions, so if somebody comes up with a
- really cool solution, drop me a line. (If nothing else, I've heard all
- kinds of creative ways to circumvent copy protection :-) ) Thanks for all
- of the help.
- --
- |Tom Guptill | tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu |
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