Sharing drives in windows for workgroups v3.11 – Rockwell Automation 9399 A.I. SERIES INSTALLATION GUIDE User Manual

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Copy Protection

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You can use the Checkdrives environment variable to specify the drives and order in

which to check them for the activation file. In your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or a batch

file that starts your software, include the line
SET CHECKDRIVES=drive_letters

where “drive_letters” is a list of drives to check. The command can be in upper or

lower case and no punctuation is required. For example,

SET CHECKDRIVES=AQC

will check drives A, Q, and C in that order for the activation file.

If you do not want your A.I. Series software to search local floppy drives for the

activation file, you can set the KEYDISK environment variable to false.

SET KEYDISK=FALSE

(or SET KEYDISK=0)

Sharing Drives in Windows for Workgroups v3.11

The following table describes circumstances under which the copy protection will allow

different clients to use A.I. Series software residing on client A’s local shared hard

drive.

If 32-Bit File Access
is…

And…

Then…

disabled on client A’s

client A moves the activation files
to client A’s drive

all clients can use the A.I.
Series software

system

a different client moves the
activation files to client A’s drive

client A can not use the
software

enabled on client A’s
system

anyone moves the activation files
to client A’s drive

all clients can use the
software

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