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- From: Richard Letts <R.J.Letts@SALFORD.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: execute only flag
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Lalot" at Dec 23, 92 10:47 am
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- Lalot writes....
- >
- >
- > Hello,
- >
- > Perhaps it is a faq. We are trying to protect the software on the net and
- > for dos products, i have used excute only flag. But under windows , for
- > word and excel, it does not work. Worse, it is not possible to recover
- > normal flags.
- >
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- Don't flag window's executables as Execute-only, because they are not executed
- using the dos EXEC function call. additionally they (normally ?) open
- themselves to read resources (icons, menus, etc)
-
- The only way out of the problem is to re-install , or use your restore
- program.
-
- Richard
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