[softwarelist] Re: Lost Registration

  • From: Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:59:24 +0100

In article <0kpFdyAULBzGFwPH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <ede742164f.jaycee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JayCee 
> <jaygcee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes


> (Jaycee) I guess if you have lost your RISC OS CD, what you do is 
> download the RISC OS demo and then use the RISC OS upgrade on it, 
> finally copying the RegData file into it.

On the RO side, RegData file, what's that?

> Problems with the RISC OS CD. There is some sort of bug or 
> incompatibility in CD reading on RISC OS 4, for this reason RISC OS Ltd. 
> have long had the CDFS from RISC OS 3.70 available on their web site. 
> I've had to sort out CD problems for many people, however one can't 
> expect such advice or changes to installations of RISC OS to persist.

> (Grumpy) Windows. Some of the CDs do time out, but you should only have 
> to enter your registration data to get it to run. However for Windows 
> the full latest version of the CD is available on line. So why would you 
> bother with the CD anyway.

If I can install it, but it won't run, how can the registration data be
entered?  (I think 22 is the number) ;-)

Yes I'm aware it is online.

GM

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