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From: stoen@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Rick Stoen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP w/LOTUS!
Message-ID: <1493@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 89 00:36:41 GMT
References: <216100135@trsvax> <54@tubbs.UUCP> <1989Sep10.231424.25552@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: stoen@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Rick Stoen)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <1989Sep10.231424.25552@ug.cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Your Worst Nightmare) writes:
>
>	Check on your Value Pack diskette-it should have a file called
>INIT.COM which both removes the copy protection and adds your name (and
>company) to the "guilty" screen which Lotus displays when you enter 123.
>
>	Sean Smith
>

Here is something to be aware of when unprotecting Lotus and may have
something to do with the original problem of transferring the copy
protection to a hard disk.

I was removing the copy protection on about 30 copies of Lotus v 2.01
here at Iowa State this summer and found about 25% of the value pack
disks were unreadable. I called Lotus about the problem and they told
me to make sure that no RAM resident programs were installed and the
machine was running at the slowest speed possible. This solved the
problem on all but 2 or 3 of the disks. I then discovered that a
value pack disk can be used on more than one system disk so I never
called Lotus back.

Anyway this may help with the transferring copy protection also. BTW I
was having problems on Hewlett Packard Vectra 16/s's.

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Rick Stoen - Iowa State University
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