Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!hacgate!ashtate!tomr
From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DBIII+ Title Screen Bypass
Message-ID: <1020@ashton.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 90 16:35:10 GMT
References: <1709@mountn.dec.com> <2267@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil>
Reply-To: tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts)
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <2267@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil> nam2254@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Tom Ohmer) writes:
>From article <1709@mountn.dec.com>, by shatara@islnds.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara):
>> [] 
>> I have to constantly face the copyright notice for about ten seconds 
>> before it moves on to my application.  
>> 
>> Does anyone have a work around to bypass this 'feature'?
>
>A couple of years ago, though I couldn't get the notice to not display, I
>used PCTools to find the text it contained in one of dBase III Plus' files.
>Made some amusing changes :-) and it still ran fine.

What!?  You violated your license agreement!  Shame on you!

Anyway, here are a few more ideas on this topic:

1.  The PD "keyfake" (or similar) utility can be used to stuff
an extra carriage return when dBASE III+ is loaded from a .BAT file,
causing the opening screen to only be visible for an instant.

2.  Although Ashton-Tate certain does not apporve of them, there are
several patches floating around on BBS's that tell you how to use
DEBUG or a similar utility to modify dbase.exe so that the opening 
screen does not appear.  Obviously, this requires a certain amount
of expertise, as well as trust that the patch does not adversely
affect anything else in the program.

3.  For you dBASE IV users, starting dBASE with the -t command line
option results in a smaller copyright screen that is only displayed 
for about two seconds.


Tom Rombouts   Torrance Techie  Voice: (213) 538-7108
				tomr@ashtate.A-T.com

(As always, the above opinions are mine alone and do not necessarily
 represent any known corporate entity, past or present.)