Re: Compiling TWO execurables

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From: Ken Halter (Ken_Halter_at_Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:19:53 -0800

"Doug Brooks" <doug@remove_this_eskimo.com> wrote in message
news:UpKdndG2-PM7Yo3fRVn-sA@comcast.com...
> Sorry if it wasn't clear. I'll try again.
>
> I have a slide show executable (created from a non-VB6 application).
> Anyone
> could copy this file and play it. I want to protect it with a dongle.
>

Man... it must be Monday...

Anyway, if you have the source for that "non-VB6 application", you'd be far
better off protecting that.

About the only way I can think of to "embed" one exe inside another is to do
it with Binary file i/o where that entire "embedded" exe was part of a
resource file that would need to be written to a file with an exe extension
before launching and deleted one you're done with it. One crash before
deleting would leave that file for all to see and virus scanners would
probably go nuts. 

-- 
Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
Please keep all discussions in the groups..

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