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

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