It came to pass on 01/23/97 that JOEL LAMBERT wrote concerning access 2 
question...
 
JL> is anyone using the developers kit and will the developers kit allow
JL> one to produce a run time version of an application in the same way
JL> visual basic does???
The developers kit contains a runtime version of MS-Access; MSRUN200.EXE 
which you are given a licence to distribute. It does not produce an 
application in it's own rigth, you distribute your .MDB file(s) and the 
runtime engine. It takes about 4 floppies do do this, even for a 
small program, so that may be a concern for some people.
Users would need full access to modify the 'program'.  Theoretically, 
you should be able to prevent users form modifying your 
application by setting up the security properly. Unfortunatly there is 
a hole in access security, which means that you cannot stop people form 
gaining access to any code you have behind a form. You can protect code 
in a module, however, but this is a pain for development. Access 7 
fixes this problem, aparently, but I have little interest in Win95.
You can also get a program that will obfuscate your code. This is not 
as effective as it is with a language such as C, but it is better that 
nothing. The program will go through all your code, remove all 
comments, replace all variable names with short names that don't make 
much sense (like n1, b4) and also remove any formatting. It just makes 
it harder for people to understand what your code is doing.
I hope this helps.
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