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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
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- Usage
- Registering and unregistering
- Notes
- Disclaimer
- History
- Credits
- Conditions of use
- Contacting the Author
Usage
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/