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              How To Unprotect:  Electric Desk 1.04                 JRE
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         This information is provided to allow legal owners of the
    above software to liberate themselves from the dependance of a
    single floppy diskette.

         Using the below patches, you will be able to make unlimited
    backups of the floppy, but more importantly, be able to boot the
    entire system off a hard disk.

         The copy protection method used on this program expects an
    unusually formatted Track 9.  The easiest way around this was to
    bypass the entire 'Verify Track 9' routine.

         I assume that you are familiar with DEBUG (found on the 2nd
    DOS diskette).  Everything displayed below in upper-case will be
    supplied by the computer; you must type everything that is in
    lower-case.  Note that the '-' is DEBUG's prompt and should not
    be typed.  Make a copy of the file 'ELECTRIC.EXE'; never work
    with you only copy.  Place the program diskette in Drive A,
    and Debug in Drive B.

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   A> ren electric.exe electric    | Debug can't resave an EXE file
   A> b:debug electric             | Enter Debug
   -r cs                           | Get CS from debug (always different)
   CS XXXX                         | Add 2000 to the number returned
                                   |  by DEBUG. This becomes yyyy.
   :  <return key>                 | Example: CS 2502, + 2000 = 4502 (yyyy)
   -s yyyy:0 ff00 b8 00 bf 78      | Use above calculated yyyy in this line.
   YYYY:D145                       | DEBUG should return this number. If not,
                                   |  you have a different vers & should quit.
   -e yyyy:d145 e9 b0 00 00        | Tell prog to skip copy prot. routine.
   -w                              | Save the program with the changes.
   Writing 2D230 bytes             | DEBUG displays this message.
   -q                              | Exit DEBUG
A> ren electric electric.exe       | REName the file to it's original name


   Thats It.  Use 'COPY A:*.* B:' to move all files to a formatted
diskette and you will have the whole system unprotected and copyable.


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   Originally Uploaded To:    Family Ledgers, Inc.  New York        JRE
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