From: libolt AT goodnet DOT com (Mike McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION about UNIVBE: [off topic]
Date: 3 Mar 1997 16:33:01 -0700
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This article is off topic. but I'll go ahead and respond

the reason Display Doctor shuts down after 21 days is because it is
Shareware- meaning that you get to try the program for a limited time
before you are required to delete it or buy it.  It is not
crippleware.  UniVBE 5.1 has the same 21 day limit on it too.  I used
to use it before I got my Matrox Millenium which has the vesa 2.0
built in
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>The one you SHOULD NEVER GET is SciTech Display Doctor 5.3a!
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>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!
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>(Does anyone know where on the net it is?)
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>--
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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