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Larry Stone (lstone@gte.net)
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:38:57 -0500 

Message-Id: <3.0.32.19691231180000.006910fc@mail.gte.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:38:57 -0500
From: Larry Stone <lstone@gte.net>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] 10 Days

Jeanne,

If you need to disable the timeout period, just edit the file
        <base>/src/msql/msqld.c
where <base> is the root of the source tree, /usr/local/src/msql-2.0-B5 for
me.

There will be a snippet of code in there which look like this:
        if (timeRemain < 0)
        {
                printf("\nThis Beta test release has expired!\n");
                printf("Check out www.Hughes.com.au for a new release!\n\n");
                exit(1);
        }
        else
        {
                printf("\n\tThis Beta test release expires in %d days.\n\n",
                       (int)(timeRemain / (24*60*60)));
        }
In 2.0B5, this starts on line 655 of the file.

Comment out the whole section (all of the lines I show above). If you like
seeing the messages, you can just comment out the call to exit(1). Do
whichever you want, then rebuild msql2d (the same way you built it
originally).

Hope this helps,

        Larry W. Stone
        lstone@gte.net

P.S. I haven't done this myself, yet, because I haven't needed to. Since
there are no side effects from the above code, I can't imagine any problems
with removing it. If anyone reading this list knows of any problems with
the above, please let us all know about it, as I suspect this is going to
become a common problem in the near future.

At 03:39 AM 4/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
>We started with Beta 2 ... and 90 days (I think). Each subsequent Beta
>release has simply continued with the same countdown value that was left off
>from the previous install.
>
>I have been trying desperately to get a license and/or instructions from
>ANYONE at Hughes to stop the counter ... as we have several clients online
>using msql 2.0 and ours is due to expire in 5 days!
>
>Jeanne
>
>At 12:32 AM 4/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Can anyone help me figure out why my brand new, just compiled
>>version of 2.0 Beta 6 is only allowing me 10 days while all
>>the other versions allowed me several weeks?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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