Thanks. but I am a ReFox owner myself.

I was just looking for a way to compress the exe in a zip file.

__Stephen


>>>>I'm looking for an inexpensive way to prevent unauthorized decompilation of
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>I used to do this for free on my website using ReFox... I'll do it for UT members for free (if only occasionally ...)
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>> compiled FoxPro program files. References to Foxafe exist on the net, but
>I think they went out -- or at least got found out to be not truthful in their advertisement.
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>They offered to let you send in an encrypted file under X # of bytes; That limit basically said "No Refox Level II encryption" -- which even refox won't decompile. They said "If you don't believe us; send us an encoded small program and we'll send it back decompiled"
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>SO I did! I used random characters in my passcode for the encryption; I gave it 1 month (they said 1 week turnaround).. I emailed them 5 times asking what was up.. never got a reply back.
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>I emailed Xitech and asked them about it; they said that Foxafe probably just uses a brute force method of attack using REFOX to decompile Level I and Level I+ files.
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>All I can say is; if it's a choice of giving them 50 bux... I'd save my money; because they're full of crud. They do a Refox Level II like encryption (brand the code to the DLL's).
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>Send it to me; I'll encode it for you... If you want to send me 10 or 20 bux; that'd be ok too. <g>
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>And the "encryption" check box does very little when compiling a FoxPro program.
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>Note: Checking the encryption OR using ReFox to brand your program will result in less compressability of your .exe and .app... A program that might have fit on 3 floppies; might now take 5 or more.
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>-josh