On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:45:47 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:57:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> It is my interpretation that Partition Magic will run under DOS, >> however, there is a problem in that you need Windows in order to >> prepare a "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" that will boot to DOS and >> run the DOS version which Windows had written to the rescue disk >> at the time when the rescue disk was prepared. I wonder about the >> legality of first installing Partition Magic on your Windows machine >> and then using the rescue disk to install it on your DOS machine. > It can't be illegal to make "Partition Magic Rescue Disk" for DOS > from a Windows install if that is what the software is designed to > do. They have obviously given you the right to do this by including > the capability to this in the software. It's obviously a legally > allowed feature. OK, but many software licenses say that you are allowed to use the software on only one computer. My question is this: If you produce a DOS rescue disk from the Partition Magic software that you have installed on your Windows computer, would it be legal to use this rescue disk to partition a drive on your DOS computer? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
