From:	enigma AT erols DOT com (enigma)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: CLARIFICATION about UNIVBE: - mkaccfix.exe (0/1)
Date:	Tue, 04 Mar 1997 00:04:25 GMT
Organization:	djgpp, i luv u ;)
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On 3 Mar 1997 04:36:58 GMT, ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul
Derbyshire) wrote:

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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.
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>Try to get UniVBE 5.1 instead!
>
>(Does anyone know where on the net it is?)
>
>--
>    .*.  Where feelings are concerned, answers are rarely simple [GeneDeWeese]
> -()  <  When I go to the theater, I always go straight to the "bag and mix"
>    `*'  bulk candy section...because variety is the spice of life... [me]
>Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh

Excuse my french, but thats a pisser ain't it..  here's a little file
to reset it ;) have fun.. (i've got the regg'd version, but i used
this to before i got it regg'd )

this is for fun and education purposes (and so i don't get arrested) -
a) run mkaccfix.exe (attached) - resets the stupid file
b) set your date to like 25 years into the future
c) re-install sdd53a
d) set date back

now its regg'd for centuries.. well, 25 years.. have fun.. oh and
sorry the file ain't zipp'd, but i misplaced pkzip.exe.. check it for
viruses or whatever.. dissassemble it.. it does what it should 
lates

mint - you computer messer upper ;)
enigma AT erols DOT com

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