Andrew Mark Raibeck (raibeck AT CONNIX DOT COM) replied:

> absolutely right - originally I said "maybe not WINWORD.EXE". But
> actually, WINWORD.EXE may in fact store my registration and license
> information.

I don't think this is where MS keep the registration information, but
then I never looked.  But if it did, I would then want to treat it as a
unique file and back it up multiple times.  I would just hope that this
scenario (customizing an executable file) would not happen very often
in real life.

> Another potential problem if ADSM were to detect duplicate files and
> not back them up: for collocated tape pools, the effects of collocation
> would be "watered down".

I'm ignorant.  8-)  Don't know what collocation means, So I don't know
if this is a problem for us.  Tell me to go see my ADSM admin if you
don't want to get into it.  (I just tried, but he was out of his office.)

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