I write script for Procomm Plus (Symantec owns this product now).

Procomm is a terminal emulation software package.

Aspect is the built in scripting language. The script files are compiled into an interpreted .wax file. As far as I know, Procomm is the only application that can execute these .wax files. These compiled .wax files are small. 3000 lines of script in a 25k .wax file.

It would sure make my day ( and maybe my living ) if I could protect these files with Armadillo directly. Lets talk.

Aspect is an excellent scripting language for it's age, it grew from WIN 3.11 to WIN NT /98. Symantec put their name on it and made it run on 2000. I guess they will EOL this product. We have seen nothing else from Symantec and this product does not really fit their potfolio. I wonder about the installed user base? It is huge.

Aspect offers the ability to load and call exported functions contained in a dll. Armadillo could protect this dll. I thought about learning C to write this .dll I found the Aspect spec for writing a dll with callable functions. We are going back to the days of far pointers & stuff. I think I am looking at 16 bit stuff here. I really can not get this going. I suffer from alignment errors and everything.

Also Aspect can not look at the registry, nor call WIN API.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Richard

If those DLLs are sixteen-bit, then Armadillo cannot protect them, and will probably never be able to. Sorry, but the market for sixteen-bit programs is just too small to justify the effort.

If they can be made 32-bit, or if they can call 32-bit DLLs for their functions (I believe it's possible to call a 32-bit DLL from a 16-bit one, though I don't have any details), then Armadillo could be used to protect and license the 32-bit DLL. Otherwise, I don't see a way to do this.