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Old 10-06-2008
ghostdog74 ghostdog74 is offline Forum Advisor  
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@OP , you don't need to do that. Just give the necessary permissions for anyone who is ever going to use the script. Even if you compile your source and become executable, how are you going to protect your original source code?