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- The excellent multi-tasking software package called MultiLink (tm)
- (not related to a similar-named package from Davong) claims to not be copy
- protected. In fact, they (in version 2.05 for IBM DOS 2.0) have placed
- "hidden" data on track 41 and used a complicated scheme of self-modifying code
- to prevent finding the read-check.
-
- Experienced programmers can modify their source to permit functional backup
- (and use with drives that cannot reach track 41) by NOP'ing the disk reads
- and data checks.
-
- Use DEBUG to find and modify the following fragments in MLINK.COM. (These
- addresses change if you say "GO" so resist the urge until you change the
- code):
- existing code: change to:
-
- DS:2A40 MOV CX,2908
- 2A43 CALL 2B40 NOP, NOP, NOP
- 2A46 JNB 2A51 JMP 2A51
-
- 2A38 MOV CX,2903
- 2A3B CALL 2B40 NOP, NOP, NOP
- 2A3E JNB 2A51 JMP 2A51
-
- CMP[230B],77
- 2A5B JNZ 2A4E NOP, NOP
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