From: noone@nowhere.net   
      
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   I'm Mac wrote:   
      
   > Hi all,   
   > This may not be the place to ask this question. But, I have two or three   
   > programs on my hard drive and have lost the disks. I may have to format my   
   > hard drive. Is ther a way to make disks of these programs? If I uackup my   
   > files to an external hard drive--Will I be able to reinstall from this?   
   > Thanks Max   
      
   A gerneral answer would be "No" (only, in case you are still running DOS (or   
   FreeDOS for that matter) it would be yes).   
   If you are a windows user and go through great pains searching for every   
   file that got dropped in folders outside the programm folder and look up   
   all registry entries that were created you might succeed. Maybe.   
   If you are running linux i'd suggest looking through the makefiles. They   
   would tell you where your files got dropped. Or you take a look into the   
   rpm database for the same. But chances are, if you were running linux you   
   wouldn't have the specific problem at all (having no backup copy. Most if   
   not all linux software is downloadable at no or small cost)   
   I think you should be sufficiently confused now :-)   
      
   One last advice- do pick a better subject next time. This one reeks of "i   
   want to have cracked software". somethin like "reinstalling software after   
   hd-format" might yield better results.   
      
   - --   
   "as appealing as it might seem, it is impossible to patch or upgrade users"   
      
      
      
      
      
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