According to Rasputin:
>
>Ah, I had some wierd notion of lazily reading the WinCE ROM 
>image up a serial port to disk, then writing it back later.
>

(this is all ipaq specific, sorry, I should have said that before).
As others have pointed out, yes, I believe it is possible to backup
the wince and get it back - the dangerous bit is the boot loader if
that gets borked your machine is non-functional.

>But even if that were possible I expect the M$ legal ninjas
>would be on you like stink on a monkey...
>

Nah - backing up the wince image is a valid thing to do, trying to
distribute the said image would be a nono.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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