The new dBASE IV Ver 1.0 has the same old nasty habit of
displaying a logo & pause at the copyright screen.

To eliminate this routine you can modify your installed version
using either the Debug.com utility or a sector editor such as
Norton Utilities as follows:

You need to modify the overlay  DBASE3.OVL  so copy it to another
sub-directory as your working copy.

*** USING DEBUG.COM ***

With debug.com and dbase3.ovl in the same sub-directory, do the
following:

enter  DEBUG DBASE3.OVL  & press return.

At the dash prompt enter  E CS:6669  & press enter.

8B:  will appear.  Enter  5D  & press the space bar once.

EC:  will appear.  Enter  CB  & press return.

At the dash prompt enter  W  & press return (to save the change).

Copy this modified overlay DBASE3.OVL to your dBASE directory
replacing the original one.  Thats it.....

*** USING A SECTOR EDITOR ***

With a sector editor such as Norton Utilities search & find the
ASCII word in caps  MONO43  in the file DBASE3.OVL overlay.

The next 5 hex bytes following  MONO43  are  00 00 55 8B EC. 
Change 8B to 5D and EC to CB hex code.  Save these changes back
to the drive.

Copy this modified overlay DBASE3.OVL to your dBASE directory
replacing the original one.  Thats it...

 
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