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FIXDATE v1.0 (4/15/92) by Michael Paine.
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FixDate was designed to bypass some copy protection of some new software
packages. They believe in a 60 day only EVALUATION modes, after which
the program becomes either disfunctionate or erases itself from existance
(and perhaps a few other things on your hard disk!). I felt that this
"crippleware" was designed against the user. They see the benefits of
free distrubution through BBSs, but do not believe in the other "free"
information that they can create. It is a double standard, and should not
be tolerated by end users who believe in a free information age.
Some of these programs "remember" if a date and time has already been used
during its operation - of which it says no and aborts. So, just resetting
the clock to a previous time is not enough. Thus, I've created a simple
external program called FIXDATE.EXE Just run it before and after the
main program (no parameters necessary) and it will take care of everything.
Basically what it does is "remember" when you last ran your program and
changes the internal clock to that time. Then, when done with it, it
just simply re-adjusts your clock to the real time (and remembers the last
run time of your program).
What this all does for you is give you the ABSOLUTE days of use, not just
a few hours a day until your evaluation time limit expires. For example,
say you only have 60 days to check out a program. Without FixDate, you
will probably only use the program at maximum 3 to 4 hours a day. That is,
at most, 4 * 60 = 240 hours of use. Not very much! Using FixDate, by
remembering when the last time you used it, will give you 60 * 24 = 1440 hours
of use. That by itself will probably last you 1440 / 4 = 360 days, or
300 EXTRA DAYS USE OUT OF YOUR PROGRAM!!!
Here's a pratical example for use in a batch file:
@Echo off
cd\ultiterm
FIXDATE
ultiterm
FIXDATE
<eof>
I've installed on parameter, /R or /r, for resetting the remembered date
and time to the current time. This is in case you reinstall or do whatever
to your program that might need to reset the "last use" time to the present.
Finally, if the info screen bothers you, just add a "> NUL" to the command
line when you run it!
Good luck and DOWN WITH CRIPPLEWARE!!!
Michael Paine