VOLUME SERIAL NUMBERS

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 03-26-93 (16:32)             Number: 383
From: ANDY WARREN                  Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO  
Subj: VOLUME SERIAL NUMBERS          Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
'Recently I asked for some assistance in learning to change the volumer
'serial numbers on disks formatted by DOS 4.0+. Here's a short program
'that will allow the user to display/change the serial number. BTW, what
'got me started on this was an idea I had to use the serial number as a
'way to limit distribution of beta copies of a program I wrote. Any
'comments?

CLS:?STRING$(50,178):'This file created by PostIt! v4.0
DEFINT A-Z:FOR A=0 TO 6:P(A)=2^A:NEXT:OPEN "B",1,"SERIAL.BAS"
T$="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789()"
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G"ka"
N=2416:K=255:IF LEN(C$)<>3222 THEN ?"Incomplete script file!":BEEP:END
FOR A=1 TO N:LOCATE 1:?STRING$(50*(A/N),177):IF L=0 THEN GOSUB G:L=6
W=T\P(6-L):GOSUB G:W=W OR T*P(L):L=L-2:B$=CHR$(W AND K):PUT 1,,B$:NEXT
?:IF C<>41 THEN ?"Bad checksum!":BEEP:END ELSE ?"Success!":END
G:I=I+1:T=INSTR(T$,MID$(C$,I,1))-1:C=(C+T)*2:C=C\256+(C AND 255):RETURN
SUB G(A$):SHARED C$:C$=C$+LEFT$(A$,70):END SUB
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