UNPROTECT WORDFINDER (UNIVERSAL VERSION)

I figured out the copy protection on Word Finder pretty easily --
it works as follows:

The original diskette is physically altered to be recognizable
(not prolock, but similar).

The WFINSTAL.EXE program first checks the SF.EXE program to see
if it has been "customized" with a user's name yet.  If YES, then
it will proceed to let you install SF.EXE for any desired word
processor.  You can switch between different word processors and
can use backup disks without any constraints.

If the SF.EXE file has NOT yet been customized with a user's name
then the WFINSTAL.EXE program checks to see if the original disk
is in the current drive.  If not, then you get an error message
and quit.

With the following patch, you can modify WFINSTAL.EXE so it will
"customize" even if the original disk is not present.  To do this
you should keep a backup virgin copy of the SF.EXE file, since that
is the only one which gets patched during the customization process. 
Each SF.EXE file can be customized only once with a new user's
name/address, but can then be installed an unlimited number of times.

The patch I worked out is as follows:

address         old          new
---------   -----------  ------------
XXXX:03A5   JNZ 3AA      JMP 401
XXXX:03A7   JMP 401      JNZ 3AA

===============================================
||       APPLY THE PATCH AS FOLLOWS          ||
===============================================

COPY SF.EXE SF.OLD
COPY WFINSTAL.EXE WFINSTAL.OLD
RENAME WFINSTAL.EXE WFINSTAL
DEBUG WFINSTAL
A3A5
JMP 401
JNZ 3AA
<ENTER>
W
Q
RENAME WFINSTAL WFINSTAL.EXE

Good luck!

                                -- The Blot
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