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9.1 KiB
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| HACKED/MISCELLANEOUS FILES: |
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| Issue #9: June 9, 1989 |
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| Maintained by Eric Newhouse |
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| Hacked (H) -- See definitions |
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| Miscellaneous (M) -- See definitions |
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| TYPES: |
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| Careful (C) -- Not confirmed, caution advised. |
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| Game (G) -- Recreational software |
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| Patch (P) -- Modification to another program |
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| usually performed through debug. |
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| Text (T) -- Text / Documentation File |
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| Util (U) -- Utility of some sort |
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Name Size Category Notes
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AUTOMAXX.ARC HC This DOS menu-making program comes with
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documentation that Marshall Magee, author
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of the popular AUTOMENU program, contends
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is plagiarized. Marshall believes that
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the AUTOMAXX documentation uses exact
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phrases from his documentation, and if
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this is the case, AUTOMAXX is clearly
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illegal. However, as I understand it,
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the courts are currently deliberating on
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the case, so AUTOMAXX is not currently
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illegal. of today. For more information,
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please contact Marshall Magee at (404)
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446-6611.
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CLIPPER.ARC 186803 MU This is a Norton Guides module for
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CLIP_NG.ARC the Clipper Dbase Compiler. Nantucket,
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the makers of Clipper, forbid
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distribution.
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COPYWRIT 2??? MP Although the real COPYWRITE is going
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around Bulletin Boards like fire, there
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is another illegal file under the same
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name. The former takes around 40 KB
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ARC-ed, whereas this takes about 2 KB.
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What I'm referring to is an archive of
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1-3 files that explains how to remove
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the serial numbers from copywrite. Now
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it's allright to "unprotect" a program
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for backup purposes, but removing serial
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numbers can only lead to piracy.
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DOG101A.COM HC This may be hacked; keep an eye out
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for it as well as DOG102A.COM.
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DOG102A.COM HC Apparently this is a renamed early
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version of DP102A.ARC, a disk optimizer.
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One person has reports that it trashes
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hard disks that use DOS 3.1 (2KB
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clusters).
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FLUSH4.ARC H This is apparently FluShot v. 3.0. Be
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careful with this; it comes with a trojan
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horse disguised as self-executable
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documentation.
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LIST60 H Vern Buerg's LIST 5.1, patched to read
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6.0. Mr. Buerg has released a legitimate
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version 6.0 of LIST. Every legit.
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version will have a letter in the
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filename (e.g. LIST60H.ARC)
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LIST799 H Vern Buerg's LIST 5.1, patched to read
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7.99.
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LOCKPICK MT This is a text file, usually with a
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.TXT extension, that casually explains
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how to pick locks. This is not
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illegal, but it's definitely in
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poor taste. It could be used as
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evidence against a burglar, though.
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LZM11.EXE 37376 MU SysOps work hard to maintain BBS's and
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to offer quality programs to the general
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public. Although we all may not like
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upload/download ratios, common sense
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indicates that if a SysOp wants to
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maintain an upload/download ratio, then
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s/he has that right. LZM, or Leech
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Zmodem, attempts to circumvent this
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right. LZM downloads files using Chuck
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Foresburg's DSZ and aborts the transfer
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instantly after receiving the last block
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of information. Thus the BBS does not
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count the download against the callers
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account, thinking the download
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unsuccessful, and the caller winds up
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with a "free" copy of the file. SysOps,
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please unite against this menace. I
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strongly recommend that you threaten to
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permanently remove any caller you catch
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using LZM. Any version of DSZ later
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than 1/8/89 can detect and nullify LZM
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1.1. However, LZM 1.2 is already
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circulating boards and it reputedly
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defeats the 1/13/89 version of DSZ. Be
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Careful.
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MONEY.ARC MT This text file claims that with minimal
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MONEY.TXT 11648 effort YOU can become a millionaire.
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This text file, as some of you may know,
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is simply another chain (pyramid) letter
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that is of course illegal. A pyramid
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writer sends a letter to four people
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requesting money. Then, according to
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the pyramid writer's plan, those four
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will send letters to four more asking
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for money for themselves and the
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original writer. Unfortunately when the
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chain breaks people lose money. What
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one person gains someone else must lose.
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That's why this type of letter is
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illegal.
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MONOPOLY MG Finally I am SURE that this file
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violates Parker Brother's rights
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to the famous boardgame. Don Gibson has
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agreed that monopoly should NOT be
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distributed anymore, so SysOps, please
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remove this file from your download
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directories.
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MOVBASIC or MU This highly illegal file, sometimes also
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SBASICA called SBASICA, breaks IBM's copyright
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on BASIC and BASICA. It creates new
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files called SBASIC or SBASICA that run
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"IBM BASIC" on an IBM clone. C'mon,
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don't you think that these clones don't
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run IBM BASICA for a good reason? The
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clones don't support BASICA because it's
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illegal! This file comes with Alloy's
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PC-Slave card. Alloy has a license
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agreement, and users of the PC-Slave are
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allowed to create copies of IBM BASIC
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for themselves. NO ONE ELSE IS. Stop
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complaining that this file is legal,
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people; this is one of the more blatent
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cases of piracy that I've seen.
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NEWARKR.EXE H Phil Katz's PKWare Package with all
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references to the PKWare license removed.
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PKXARC36.EXE H Phil Katz's PKXARC 3.5 patched to read
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3.6
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PKXARC53.EXE H Phil Katz's PKXARC 3.5 patched to read
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5.3
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QMDM110.ARC H This is version 1.09 of Qmodem patched
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to read 1.10. There have been rumors of
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a worm in 1.10, but I have seen no
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evidence of it. Other versions are OK.
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XTALK MP Like Copywrite, there is a patch
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circulating BBS's to remove the serial
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numbers from Crosstalk.
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