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29 Jul 2024 06:28:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An ironic development  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 31 Oct 2012 12:23:33
Message: <50915085$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/31/2012 1:42 AM, scott wrote:
>> But, in general, adding some sort of flag to the registry, with a date,
>> or the like, is the simplest solution. So, in principle, if you knew
>> what changed, you could undo it.
>
> Of course it is the simplest, but does any real software actually use
> only that method? IME not, for example try www.bobstrackbuilder.net -
> even a low-budget program from a single coder does not use that method,
> so I highly doubt more "commercial" programs like PhotoShop etc would
> use such an easily hacked method.
>
True. Sometimes its dang hard to work out how they do manage it, but, 
its got to be "someplace" on your machine, and there are a finite number 
of things they can do to manage it.


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