The following documents the procedure to unprotect the copy-protected version of Sidekick ver. 1.11c. All four sk programs calls a subroutine to check for the modified track on the original. The procedure is as follow: * The user input is everything within the square bracket []. 1. Copy debug.com & all sidekick programs onto a new disk. Put it in drive A. 2. At DOS prompt, type [debug sk.com] A>debug sk.com 3. Then after the debug prompt, type [u 07fd] -u 07fd 4. Pls check the following carefully. If it does not match, you have a different version. XXXX:07FD BC0020 MOV SP,2000 XXXX:0800 0E PUSH CS XXXX:0801 E88686 CALL 8E8A XXXX:0804 2E CS: . . . 5. After the debug prompt, type [e 0801]. Then type [90 90 90 ] -e 0801 XXXX:0801 E8.90 86.90 86.90 6. Then type [w q] -w -q 7. Now you can copy the sidekick program to your harddisk and forget about putting in the original disk in drive A every time you start Sidekick. For SKN.com, the program name in step 2 is SKN.COM. The address in step 3 is 07db. The address in step 5 is 07df. For SKC.com, the program name in step 2 is SKC.COM. The address in step 3 is 07b8. The address in step 5 is 07bc. For SKM.com, the program name in step 2 is SKM.COM. The address in step 3 is 076b. The address in step 5 is 076f.