From: Ulrich.Diez@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.De   
      
   Hello!   
      
   I'm about to create a bootable-cd with a small Win95/DOS 7.0-Kernel.   
   While booting, a hard-disk C: is emulated from the cd.   
   I also will have a RAM-disk available, but it's driveletter is not a fixed   
   value but depends on the acurrent architecture of the machine (I often   
   replace, add or remove some drives).   
   In order to resolve this, I have two environment-variables %RAMDRV%   
   and %BOOTDRV% available, which denote to the current letters of the   
   emulated hard-drive and the RAM-disk.   
      
   On this CD I would like to have Borland-Pascal 7.0 available also.   
      
   Some questions arose:   
      
   a) technical-aspects   
      
   As there are settings and stuff in the IDE where write-access is needed,   
   I thought I could have BP copied into RAM-disk and started from there.   
   But I assume that there are some files in BP, which denote to absolute   
   file paths where drive-letters occur.   
   As the drive-letter of the RAM-drive is not fixed, I should have created   
   these files on-the-fly according to the above-mentioned environment-   
   variables during the copy-to-RAM-disk process.   
      
   Which files of the BP 7.0-distribution actually need write-access?   
   Which files of the BP 7.0-distribution denote to absolute file-paths with   
   drive-letters ?   
   Is it possible -e.g. via some configuration-script- to only move these files   
   into RAM-disk while leaving everything else on the write-protected disk?   
      
   b) legal/license-aspects   
      
   [I don't want to start a flame-war here but somehow I'm interested: ]   
   I bought Borland Pascal 7.0 legally some years ago. But I don't know any   
   more about the license-type. Under what circumstances is it at all legal   
   to have it installed on such a bootable-CD? For example the CD could   
   (not simultaneously but in sequence) be used on different PCs/CPUs   
   although the install-procedure took place at only one PC from which the   
   CD was created.   
      
   Sincerely   
      
   Ulrich   
      
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