Re: life after Windows....

In article <bogus-D4B8AD.23022031032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jack Campin
- bogus address <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not true. Early versions of MS Word for the Mac put user registration
information into parts of disk blocks that the file system didn't
know about. It didn't need to hack the OS to do it, just used a few
disk-level system calls. (It was a benign hack that never caused
anybody any problems that I heard of, but was also easily cicumvented
once people realized how it was done).

which version was that? as i recall, it put registration data into the
data fork of the app. there's nothing unusual about that and the file
system definitely knew about it (that's how it got there).
.

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