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From: Robert Heller on 17 Feb 2010 10:30
At Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:17:17 -0800 (PST) Will Duquette <will(a)wjduquette.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 17, 3:36=A0am, Sean Woods <y...(a)etoyoc.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 17, 12:15=A0am, APN <palm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 17, 3:27=A0am, Highstat <highs...(a)highstat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hello,
> >
> > > > I need a piece of Tcl code that shows my end user the hard drive
> > > > serial number of the drive on which he/she installs my software. How
> > > > would I do that?
> >
> > > > Alain
> >
> > > Using twapi,
> >
> > > package require twapi
> > > twapi::get_volume_info c: -serialnum
> >
> > Oh cool... I'd been synthesizing a batch file and calling it through
> > exec up until now.
> >
> > Thank you Tcl Dudes!
> >
> > --Sean "The Hypnotoad" Woods
>
> Can someone explain to me why you need to do this?

Closed source software licensing games probably.

>

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From: Jeremy on 17 Feb 2010 10:37
On Feb 17, 10:30 am, Robert Heller <hel...(a)deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > Can someone explain to me why you need to do this?
>
> Closed source software licensing games probably.
>

Many businesses with secure applications (for instance dealing in
health care with hipaa laws) will use such a tecnique as well. There
are many legit reasons for doing such an activity. Some other reasons
is shareware restrictions, but doing something like this for that will
just yeild upset users :-)

Jeremy
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