On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, chris wrote:
> Its a medical scheduling application called Perfect Care.
presumably not related to the "Perfect Software" office suite
of 20 years ago
You're in a bit of a bind - the support people say they have problems
but won't say (OR DON'T KNOW) what the exact problem is, and it
doesn't sound like the users can give you much usable information
about the problem.
> >blocked "for security reasons" (such as writing disk sectors),
> >then it won't run any better with VPC.
> Won't it? VPC makes the software think it is running on its own computer.
> So I would think the software could write to "disk sectors" inside VPC.
> >From there VPC would take care of altering that into whatever method XP
> wishes to be used.
Some things can be simulated easily, and some can't.
Familiar with "Pro-lock"? It was a protection scheme
that actually relied on physical damage to the disk.
Some of the more extreme uses of it actually made
an attempt to write to the bad sectors to confirm
that they really would get a "physical" error.
THAT can't be properly simulated (although replacing
the "checking" subroutine with a RET solves it)
OB_OT: Vault Corporation, the makers of Pro-Lock
went out of business due to the public reaction to
their announcement of Pro-Lock-PLUS.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 22:01:47 BST