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David

Hello

I have seen the MDE code protector in everything access.
If you use this is there a way to add in copyright information?

I know all of the commented lines are taken out so how is it normally done?

David
 
David said:
I know all of the commented lines are taken out so how is it normally done?
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Many years ago, 27 or 28 or so to be more precise, IBM had a constant
defined at the very beginning of each program. It states something
like "Copyright 1983 IBM".

Now someone could conceivably overwrite that with a hex editor.

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I've used the constant. Plus I put in a "watermark": It is a constant with
text that I manually encrypted. A plagerizer would probably overlook the
watermark. Also I place a copyright statement at the bottom of each form
which is filled in each time the form is open by a special procedure that
decodes another constant and inserts it into the copyright text box control.
Generally I make it difficult for the plagerizer to change the copyright.
 
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