Lost in a sea of code

Another day wasted crackalacking away at the codes.

This one is confusing as hell. It uses the volume serial number to generate a unique serial number for evaluations, has the classic 30 day timer and other crap. It shows me my serial number on a web page built into the app, so it was ‘fun’ tracing through the html parser code to see how it generates the serial number.

In cases like this, what I’ll probably end up doing is checking the startup code for that special value – the one that checks if you’re an eval or if you’re a full user and just patching it to say im a full user and skip the serial number gen altogether. Another thing I might fall back on is just setting the expiration timer to 99999 days.

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