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Re: .sav format [message #52529 is a reply to message #52298]

Mon, 05 February 2007 12:46

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:27:47 -0500, Haje Korth wrote:

> JD,
> one reason for guarding the format is obvious. The sav files allow an IDL
> license to be embedded. If one were to figure out how this is done, one
> could probably extract that license and inject it into any other sav files.
> I don't use IDL run time licensing so I don't see much use in this. However
> such action would clearly illegal and would warrant guarding the format. If
> the variables were stored in a separate file format than code+license,
> reverse engineering the variable save files wouldn't be such a delicate
> issue. My guess is that storing variable data was not the primary reason for
> creating the sav file format.

I don't get it... is there something in the SAV file which enables IDL
licenses? Not in any SAV file I've ever made. I thought runtime licenses
were just like normal licenses.

JD

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		.sav format By: ChristopherFlorio on Mon, 29 January 2007 04:50
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Tue, 30 January 2007 09:58
		Re: .sav format By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 30 January 2007 09:40
		Re: .sav format By: Paolo Grigis on Tue, 30 January 2007 07:36
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Tue, 30 January 2007 05:21
		Re: .sav format By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 29 January 2007 13:01
		Re: .sav format By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 03 February 2007 23:04
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Mon, 29 January 2007 12:49
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Wed, 07 February 2007 05:10
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Tue, 06 February 2007 15:45
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Tue, 06 February 2007 15:44
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Tue, 06 February 2007 12:00
		Re: .sav format By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 11 February 2007 13:53
		Re: .sav format By: Guillermo on Tue, 06 February 2007 11:04
		Re: .sav format By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 February 2007 07:42
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Mon, 05 February 2007 15:02
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Mon, 05 February 2007 12:46
		Re: .sav format By: Haje Korth on Mon, 05 February 2007 10:27
		Re: .sav format By: JD Smith on Mon, 05 February 2007 09:58
		Re: .sav format By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 11 February 2007 13:47

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