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30/10/2005 15:51:14
 
 
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30/10/2005 15:42:38
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01062778
Message ID:
01063396
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41
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>I understand and Agree with you and Peter.
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>With you Jos because ReFox is a tool that can be really useful and seem to do a good job out of recovering source code.
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>I agree with Peter because I, like Peter (if I understood correctly), don't want to have to buy ReFox to protect my application against being decompiled by ReFox. To me there seems to be a gimmick in there <g>
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>So I have a solution to propose. In the main program of my application if the string "ReFox is not welcome in here" is there then ReFox won't recover the source code for that application.
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>If I ever lose my source code and that string was there then I'll have to live with the consequences <g>
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>Does that make sense to you guys?

My first impression, a very neat solution. However, there is one drawback. The current and older versions of Refox already decompile my apps and do not pay attention to such a string.
Groet,
Peter de Valença

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