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dBASE III Plus has an annoying pause upon start-up when the program asks you
to hit ENTER as acknowledgement of the verbose license agreement. Regardless of
how you feel about "shrinkwrap" licensing, it gets annoying to bow to
Ashton-Tate's legal beagles every time one uses the program. The following
patch is aimed at curing this. The patch will automatically enter the CR and
proceed to the starting screen.(The initial message is flashed on lightning
fast, acheiving its objective "subliminally")
The patch is done on the file DBASE.LD1 as follows:
DEBUG DBASE.LD1
-S 100 FFFE 75 E3 2B C0 'This locates the code
XXXX:YYYY 'The address
-E XXXX:YYYY 75.90 E3.90 <enter>
-W
Writing 4A00 bytes
-Q
And that's it!
If you have ventured into the "unlocking" of dBASE III Plus from the SoftGuard
protection system using the approach described by LONE VICTOR in DB3PLUS.LBR,
you can either apply the above mentioned fix to DBASE.LD1 before merging it
with DBASE.UNP, or on the resulting DBASE.EXE file. In the latter case,
remember to rename the file with a different extension than .EXE so that DEBUG
can rewrite the corrected file. The fix is done with the same approach.
Note: To those of you interested, a similar "fix" is possible for FRAMEWORK II.
You can find it as FRAMEWK2.PAT.
Morgan Barbarrosa
Atlanta, GA 2/14/86