[REBOL] Re: Selling REBOL scripts - Scott's Distributed Licence - tm
From: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 8-Jan-2002 13:42
Interesting idea Volker,
here is a little spin on it:
--- Batch file named test.bat ---
%rebol_home%\rebol test.bat
exit
rebol []
alert "test.bat executed!"
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You may not have a rebol home, in which case you can substitute it for the real
path.
Incidently in this case it is essentially the same as the following in unix type
systems:
--- file named test.bat on unix ---
#!/usr/bin/rebol
rebol []
alert "test.bat executed!"
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You could also put your script in a file full of garbage (without any nulls before
the embed) and use rebol's embedding ability to hide your script. example:
--- Batch file named test.bat ---
%rebol_home%\rebol test.bat
exit
~C2Tq!r@mR 斯-H=ɶm'LJZP 7mZ`H'Ѐ
[0)"鋢:SK=v @p
[rebol []do decompress
#{789C4BCC492D2A51504ACECF2D284A2D2E4E4D5128492D2ED14B4A2C5148AD48
4D2E2D494D5154020007D80D8F25000000}] ~C2Tq!r@mR
斯-H=ɶm'LJZP 7mZ`H'Ѐ
[0)"鋢:SK=v @p
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And if you go one step further, you could create a .com, .exe, or other executable
file format that works off the same principal. One potential show stopper here is
that rebol stops seaching for embedded scripts when it comes onto a null character.
--Ryan
[nitsch-lists--netcologne--de] wrote:
> RE: [REBOL] Re: Selling REBOL scripts - Scott's Distributed Licence - tm
>
> [SunandaDH--aol--com] wrote:
> >
> > Hi Scott,
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > I have no problem in many cases for people to have a copy of my code. I just
> > want as many barriers between my application and their copy of the source
> > code as possible. With C source a user has got to be very determined to
> > change the source, recompile, relink, rebuild and perhaps reinstall before
> > their change takes place,
> >
>
> if thats the problem, how about distributing your scripts compressed?
> one has to use some tricks (select the compressed 64#{..} and store it
> to a file using write %file.r #{..}).
> thats similar effort as compiling?
>
> > With Rebol as it stands now, a curious user can junk an entire application by
> > loading it into Word to take a look, and accidentally saving it back as
> > non-ASCII. I think applications that fragile are scary.
> >
>
> *grin*:
> %start-script.r :
> rebol[] do %application-script.exe
> with normal rebol-code there.
> word & co will not open.
> windows will say its broken,
> but you its a special kind which needs to be started
> by the rebol-script.
> usual users will handle it respectfully and more skilled are clever
> enough not to edit code with word? *gg*
>
> > Sunanda.
>
> -Volker
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