>I am about to send potential customers CDs with a copy of my app. How do folks make these CDs time limited?
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>Just checking against the system date will probably work most of the time. Writing encrypted date info to the registry or a DBF are other ways. Are there better ways?
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>Tim
A completely different approach, but very effective IMO, does not rely on the time at all. Just limit the reccount() in all tables, or in critical tables, to a value that is reasonable for tests, but ridiculously low for any real work.
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