From:	ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	CLARIFICATION about UNIVBE:
Date:	3 Mar 1997 04:36:58 GMT
Organization:	The National Capital FreeNet
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The one you SHOULD NEVER GET is SciTech Display Doctor 5.3a!

It includes "UniVBE 5.3" but it is crippleware. It places a small
encrypted hidden file called io.idx on your hard drive root directory,
encoding the date of firt run. 21 days later it dies.
There is a pair of bytes in io.idx that appears to be an integer
representing the number of days before the year 2000 it should choose to
die. If they are changed though UniVBE will not run at all. There must be
a checksum in io.idx as well.


Try to get UniVBE 5.1 instead!

(Does anyone know where on the net it is?)

--
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 -()  <  When I go to the theater, I always go straight to the "bag and mix"
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh

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