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Did you see the writeup in the August issue of PC Tech Journal about disk
cacheing? They have good things to say about Super PC-Kwik. Have you seen
the shareware version of PC-Kwik, usually found in the arc file
SHAREPCK.ARC
If you have tried it, you probably got disgusted looking at all 6 (count
em, 6) of the opening screens. The following is a simple patch to stop the
screen display of the 6 opening screens, and also the necessity of hitting
return 6 times. The first patch gets rid of the call to the subroutine
which displays the screens and waits for the ENTER keys. The second part of
the patch is necessary because the writers were sneaky. They incremented a
counter each time you pressed enter, and later they check this counter and
reboot your system if the counter is not equal to 6. What is this? Reminds
me of copy protection in a so-called "shareware" program.
I created this patch mainly because I enjoy tinkering with the innards of such
programs. It is not my intention to deprive MultiSoft Corporation of their
right to registration fees if you use their program. As a matter of fact, I
encourage you to register your copy if you use it regularly. Shareware will
only work if we support it. However, I resent anyone who releases a program
as "shareware" and then makes you look at six screens of advertising every
time you use the program.
On to the actual operation. Extract the files from the Sharepck.arc file,
and copy three files onto a blank, formatted floppy disk. The three files
are:
1. SHAREPCK.COM The "shareware" version of PC-KWIK
2. DEBUG.COM from your DOS disk. Any version >= 2.00
3. PCKWKPAT.SCR The other file that come along with this doc file
Make the disk drive containing the new floppy the default drive, and then
type in:
DEBUG <PCKWIKPAT.SCR
This will alter the SHAREPCK.COM file.