Re: A86: Edit lock

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Re: A86: Edit lock


Jeff Tyrrill wrote:

> I edit-lock my Basic programs mainly so some stupid lamer at some
> school
> doesn't change my name on my program to his own, and then sell it.
> Most
> people with Graph-Links or the means to un-edit-lock a program
> wouldn't do
> that. You might not think that anyone would, but I've seen it happen
> many
> times at my school, both people changing the author's name on a
> program,
> and people selling programs (that they didn't write).
> ________________
>
> Jeff Tyrrill
> http://tyrrill-ticalc.home.ml.org/
> http://ti-philes.home.ml.org/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Klukan [SMTP:renegade@bmt.net]
> Sent:   Saturday, February 07, 1998 11:33 PM
> To:     assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject:        Re: A86: Edit lock
>
> As far as I know, ASM programs cannot be edit-locked.  For BASIC, it
> is
> a $FF character that causes the program to become edit-locked.  I
> think
> that it must come at the end of the program, but I am not sure about
> that.  ASM programs do not really need to be edit-locked, since once
> they are compiled, there is no way to edit them.  That is unless you
> decompile it, which would generate code that is uncommented and is
> full
> of pointers and such.  Anyway, there are programs that can
> un-edit-lock
> programs, so the feature is pretty much useless anyway.
>
> -Jeremy

I never said that it didn't happen, I just said the edit-lock feature
wasn't very useful.  If you don't want someone changing your program,
your best bet would be to write it in ASM, since there would be almost
no way for them to edit your program then.  Anyway, if you think those
students are doing something wrong, you should tell everyone that you'll
give them the programs for free.  Then those students would have no one
to sell to.  At my school (500+ students) my friends and I put programs
and stuff on other people's calculators for free.  The math teachers are
not overly happy about it, but they don't really mind as long as you pay
attention and get your work done.  Well, enough said.  Later!

-Jeremy
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