>Hey Mike .
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>Refox is a *great* product and it offers you a way to protect your EXE from someone else having Refox. You need Refox version 7 for VFP 5, but Refox 7 also does VFP3 and FP and Foxbase EXE, APP, FXPs, SPXes, and so on.
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>The latest version of Refox also has an _ANTIFROG_ directive which will protect your EXE against FROG, which is a similar product marketed by Pavel Celba in Eastern Europe. These two companies have obviously collaorated on this.
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>There are no other Fox decompilers that I know of.
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>Note that encrypting your EXE in the VFP PM is useless against Refox. All of VFP's APP files (BROWSER, BEAUTIFY, WIZARD, BUILDER) are decompiled in seconds by Refox.
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>As for the "ethics" of Xitech, (as someone else bemoaned) they have a product that decompiles EXEs, and they have a way you can protect yourself, and you pay for both priveledges by buying a single product. I have no problem with that.
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>**--** Steve


"Xitech" is doing nothing unethical...if that were the case, then all the companies making photocopy machines would also be unethical because it allows you to copy pages from a book, thus violating someone's copyright. The ethics come in the hands of the users.

Craig