From: parkinsj AT cs DOT man DOT ac DOT uk (Jack Parkinson)
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Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION about UNIVBE:
Date: 5 Mar 1997 14:28:00 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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In article <5fdkha$lub AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>, ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) writes:
> 
> The one you SHOULD NEVER GET is SciTech Display Doctor 5.3a!
> 
> It includes "UniVBE 5.3" but it is crippleware. It places a small
> encrypted hidden file called io.idx on your hard drive root directory,
> encoding the date of firt run. 21 days later it dies.
> There is a pair of bytes in io.idx that appears to be an integer
> representing the number of days before the year 2000 it should choose to
> die. If they are changed though UniVBE will not run at all. There must be
> a checksum in io.idx as well.
> 

By deleting the io.idx file and uninstalling/reinstalling Display Doctor you
could in theory get the full 21 days again :-)

--
Jack Parkinson