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- dBASE III Plus has an annoying pause upon start-up when the program asks you
- to hit ENTER as acknowledgement of the verbose license agreement. Regardless of
- how you feel about "shrinkwrap" licensing, it gets annoying to bow to
- Ashton-Tate's legal beagles every time one uses the program. The following
- patch is aimed at curing this. The patch will automatically enter the CR and
- proceed to the starting screen.(The initial message is flashed on lightning
- fast, acheiving its objective "subliminally")
-
- The patch is done on the file DBASE.LD1 as follows:
-
- DEBUG DBASE.LD1
- -S 100 FFFE 75 E3 2B C0 'This locates the code
- XXXX:YYYY 'The address
- -E XXXX:YYYY 75.90 E3.90 <enter>
- -W
- Writing 4A00 bytes
- -Q
- And that's it!
-
- If you have ventured into the "unlocking" of dBASE III Plus from the SoftGuard
- protection system using the approach described by LONE VICTOR in DB3PLUS.LBR,
- you can either apply the above mentioned fix to DBASE.LD1 before merging it
- with DBASE.UNP, or on the resulting DBASE.EXE file. In the latter case,
- remember to rename the file with a different extension than .EXE so that DEBUG
- can rewrite the corrected file. The fix is done with the same approach.
-
- Note: To those of you interested, a similar "fix" is possible for FRAMEWORK II.
- You can find it as FRAMEWK2.PAT.
-
- Morgan Barbarrosa
- Atlanta, GA 2/14/86
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-