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- fsckregist (1.01) - user registration program for fsck, eliminate and hardfix
-
- NOTE: this program is SHAREWARE. Read the !SHAREWARE file for more info.
-
- fsckregist is a simple program that allows you to register (or unregister)
- your copy of fsck. To register you need to have a valid features and user
- codes that only the author may supply.
-
-
- Index
- -----
-
- - Usage
- - Registering and unregistering
- - Notes
- - Disclaimer
- - History
- - Credits
- - Conditions of use
- - Contacting the Author
-
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- fsckregist [-u "username"] [-f features] [-c usercode] [fsck path] [eliminate path] [hardfix path]
- -u username (enclosed in "" if it contains spaces)
- -f special features
- -c usercode
-
- If no username, special features or usercode are provided fsckregist will ask
- for them.
- If no paths are provided fsckregist will search for fsck, eliminate and
- hardfix in the directory where it is stored.
-
-
- Registering and unregistering
- -----------------------------
-
- To register you just have to copy fsck, eliminate, hardfix and fsckregist on
- a read-write media (eg extract them from the archive and put them in the
- Library directory of your harddisc) and then run fsckregist. It will ask you
- the user name, features code and user code and then will write them to the
- fsck, eliminate and hardfix executables.
-
- The features code is used to enable some facility that will otherwise be
- inhibited. These facilities may be potentially dangerous (eg hardfix writing
- to the bootblock) so I will not generally allow people to use them.
- Registered versions may have additional features that have been removed from
- the unregistered version (eg support for the new FileCore module) but they
- will not require a specific features code because they are just 'standard'
- features.
- See the "Extra features" section of the various help files ('fsck_help',
- 'elim_help' and 'hard_help') for more detailed informations.
-
- If the user code is wrong fsckregist will not warn you but will just
- 'unregister' the fsck, eliminate and hardfix executables: so, if you are a
- registered user you can just keep your registered version and eventually
- 'unregister' it (giving fsckregist a wrong user code) if you need to give it
- to someone else.
-
-
- Notes
- -----
-
- Once your copy of fsck, eliminate and hardfix are registered there is no easy
- way to extract your user code from them. You should therefore write your
- user code somewhere else so that you will be able to register any new version
- of fsck you will eventually download without having to request them directly
- to the author. In fact the user codes will be valid for every future version
- of the fsck suite, unless the author decide otherwise.
-
- The user code is derived from both the user name and the features code, if
- the author gives you a features code that is different from 0 you must use it
- during the registration procedure otherwise the executables will be
- 'unregistered' because the user code will be illegal.
-
- The user name is case sensitive and even punctuation and space are
- significant: when you will register the author will tell you exactly what you
- have to write.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
-
- fsckregist is the less dangerous program you will find in the fsck suite!
- Anyway it can corrupt your copy of fsck, eliminate and hardfix, avoid to play
- with it except when you really have to register or unregister the programs!
-
- If for any reason (either your mistake or a bug in fsckregist) it causes you
- a loss of data, I am sorry for you but I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
-
- Use fsckregist at your own risk.
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- 1.00 -- 03 Jan 96
- First released version.
- 1.01 -- 03 Jul 96
- Small internal changes (note that these changes make 1.01 incompatible with
- 1.00, so you must use 1.01 with the current release of fsck, eliminate and
- hardfix).
-
-
- Credits
- -------
-
- I'd like to thank the following people who contibuted in some way to the
- development of fsckregist:
- - Nick Craig-Wood for the functions to calculate the usercode and some
- general protection-scheme advice
-
-
- Conditions of use
- -----------------
-
- fsckregist can only be distributed with the complete fsck suite.
- Read the !SHAREWARE file for the conditions of use and distribution of the
- whole package.
-
-
- Contacting the Author
- ---------------------
-
- Post: Sergio Monesi
- Via Trento e Trieste 30
- 20046 Biassono (MI)
- Italy
-
- EMail: msergio@mbox.vol.it
- pel0015@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it
- sergio@freebsd.first.gmd.de
-
- WWW: http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it/~pel0015/
-