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From: agollum@engr.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Re: pcplus test drive
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Date: 22 Nov 88 03:47:28 GMT
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Reply-To: agollum@engr.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
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>I noticed that the recently posted "Procomm Test Drive" keeps track of how
>many times it was executed.  My question is: WHY?  Does the program destroy
>itself after "X" number of times??

The older shareware versions of Procomm recorded the number of times the
program was started.  The first several times it was run, it would
display the shareware advertisement before going to the terminal screen;
then the program stopped displaying it and went straight to the terminal
screen.  I suspect the test drive program is doing the same thing;
do you remember seeing a shareware advert the first x times you ran
the program?

Kenneth Herron