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The new unprotected dBASEIII Plus version 1.1 has a nasty habit of making
you read signon messages and asking you to acknowledge their license.
This interferes with certain applications and maybe you just don't
want to see your name in blazing lights on each startup.
Well, you need not have to do that if you are willing to patch your
installed version. If you don't understand how to use debug, get someone
that has moxie to do the following changes. Maybe, even if you got lots of
moxie yourself, you should might oughta make a backup of the files before
screwing around with em.
These patches worked on the files that were originally dated 7-29-86 12:00p.
*** All numbers that follow are in hex ***
I. Load DBASE.MSG into DEBUG and make the following changes:
1. at 176D change the byte to 0, it was ??
2. at 1787 change the byte to 0, it was ??
3. at 17A1 change the byte to 0, it was ??
4. at 17B3 change the byte to 0, it was 54
Write the file back to disk
NOTE: the first 3 changes are the first character of your name, your
company, and your serial number. If you want, fill the whole
range from 176D to 17D0 with 0 and obliterate all traces of
the names and the serial number.
II. Load DBASEINL.OVL into DEBUG and make the following changes
1. at 14B2 change the byte 20 to 0
2. at 1503 change the byte 20 to 0
3. at 67CE change the byte 64 to 0
4. at 6E9 change two bytes 9A E2 to EB 03
5. at 72B change two bytes 9A 0F to EB 03
Write the file back to disk
5755 end run
67ce dbase
III. Change name of DBASE.EXE to DBASE.TMP and load into DEBUG
1. at 8A35 change two bytes 75 E3 to 90 90
Write the file back to disk
Change the name of the file back to DBASE.EXE
That should do it.... Opps, if it didn't work aren't you glad you made
that backup! hee hee
ENJOY!
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Additional changes 10/21/1986 (RF):
To kill other startup messages from dbase.msg:
Change byte at 2d8d to 0 to eliminate "Type a command..." prompt.
Change byte at 2dfe to 0 to eliminate "Press F1..."
In DBASEINL.OVL:
Change byte at 5755 to 0 to eliminate "*** END RUN..."
Change byte at 67ce to 0 to eliminate "dBASE II PLUS Version 1.1"
***Warning*** this will cause the VERS() function to return a null string,
would definitely like to see a better answer here.