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- UNPROTECT WORDFINDER (UNIVERSAL VERSION)
-
- I figured out the copy protection on Word Finder pretty easily --
- it works as follows:
-
- The original diskette is physically altered to be recognizable
- (not prolock, but similar).
-
- The WFINSTAL.EXE program first checks the SF.EXE program to see
- if it has been "customized" with a user's name yet. If YES, then
- it will proceed to let you install SF.EXE for any desired word
- processor. You can switch between different word processors and
- can use backup disks without any constraints.
-
- If the SF.EXE file has NOT yet been customized with a user's name
- then the WFINSTAL.EXE program checks to see if the original disk
- is in the current drive. If not, then you get an error message
- and quit.
-
- With the following patch, you can modify WFINSTAL.EXE so it will
- "customize" even if the original disk is not present. To do this
- you should keep a backup virgin copy of the SF.EXE file, since that
- is the only one which gets patched during the customization process.
- Each SF.EXE file can be customized only once with a new user's
- name/address, but can then be installed an unlimited number of times.
-
- The patch I worked out is as follows:
-
- address old new
- --------- ----------- ------------
- XXXX:03A5 JNZ 3AA JMP 401
- XXXX:03A7 JMP 401 JNZ 3AA
-
- ===============================================
- || APPLY THE PATCH AS FOLLOWS ||
- ===============================================
-
- COPY SF.EXE SF.OLD
- COPY WFINSTAL.EXE WFINSTAL.OLD
- RENAME WFINSTAL.EXE WFINSTAL
- DEBUG WFINSTAL
- A3A5
- JMP 401
- JNZ 3AA
- <ENTER>
- W
- Q
- RENAME WFINSTAL WFINSTAL.EXE
-
- Good luck!
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