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                        N A G B U S T E R v.0.70ß      
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 NAG-BUSTER is Copyright (c) 1991-1992 by PC ONLINE SOFTWARE and
 author Erik Famm. 

 NAG-BUSTER removes introductory screens, such as windows popping 
 up, implemented delays, time limits and checksums from a variety of 
 products. This version of NAG-BUSTER is a 'beta', which means 
 that it has not been fully tested on all existing IBM compatible 
 systems or configurations.


                              Registration

 NAG-BUSTER is a shareware program which should be registered. 
 Those who feel that upgrades (including lots of new patches) are of 
 interest, may register by paying the amount of
 
                          $    35,- (United States)
                          NKr 250,- (Norway)
                          DM   59,- (Germany)
                          £    25,- (Great Britain)
                          SEK 260,- (Sweden)                 
                          DKr 250,- (Denmark)
 
 or the eqvivalent in your local currency.
                
 If you send us 10 or more new shareware programs (not listed in the
 current version of NAG-BUSTER), you may pay only 1/3 of the amount 
 above. If sending us more than 25 new shareware programs, you will be 
 registered and receive one upgrade later at NO CHARGE!!

 You may pay by money order, check or enclosed cash.
 Remember to fill out the Registration form found in the Main menu.

 Registered users will have some advantages: they will be sent an 
 upgrade once or twice a year at no cost for as we continue to upgrade 
 the NAG-BUSTER (probably for a long time!), depending on the responds 
 from the users, the amount of users and technology as well).
 
 The registered version will not have the PC ONLINE SOFTWARE-screen,
 the user will have his name on the main screen with a number attached
 to it. 

 After registerring, you may, of course, send us more programs to
 be patched in order to improve the NAG-BUSTER.


                             Legal matters

 NAG-BUSTER is intended solely for the use of legitimate owners or
 licensees of shareware programs or for those who intend to buy the
 shareware program later and is specifically NOT intended for any
 use that would deprive any software publisher of his rightful income.
 NAG-BUSTER is intended for private use only. 

 The patched files that NAG-BUSTER creates may NOT be sold, rented
 out, given away, or uploaded to computer bulletin board services
 (BBS's). The created programs are intended for your testing only
 and should only be used until you are supposed to register.

 You may not modify NAG-BUSTER in any way. You may not reverse
 engineer the program by decompiling, disassembling or decrypting the
 program.

 NAG-BUSTER is provided for the purpose of allowing you to evaluate
 shareware programs as they will appear when you buy them. You may
 use the NAG-BUSTER for as long as you like. You are also granted
 the right, and encouraged, to distribute NAG-BUSTER to others who 
 may find it of interest, and to upload it to computer bulletin board 
 service (BBS's).

 NOTE:
 No warranty of any kind, whether expressed or implied, is attached
 to NAG-BUSTER, including any claim  of merchantability or
 suitability of NAG-BUSTER for any specific purpose. No warranty
 shall extend to any right to claim any damages from PC ONLINE SOFTWARE
 or author Erik Famm, including but not limited to loss of profit, data, 
 or use of the software, or any consequential or incidental damages. 
 You use NAG-BUSTER entirely at your risk.

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                       What is NAG-BUSTER and WHY?

 NAG-BUSTER is a utility that removes those 'naggy' windows that
 tend to pop up before program entry or during program exit. These
 windows contain information and requests that only should have been 
 placed in a readable file included in the package rather than inside 
 the program. By removing them, you will be able to evaluate a program 
 more or less identical to the program you will receive after you have 
 paid for it. Normally, all naggy windows are subject to great 
 irritation rather than information, and the user will not even _try_ 
 the program because of this, and that effect cannot be satisfactory 
 for either the programmer nor the user.

 Some programs contain delays connected to these windows in which the
 user has to wait up to 90 seconds until the program continues running.
 Other programs contain hidden 'bombs' that is able to crash a machine
 if the code has been altered in any way.
 

                   What's Wrong with 'naggy' programs?

 A shareware program in its unregistered form with all windows
 popping up telling you to pay as soon as possible, is not identical
 to the program you will pay for later. The registered version has
 none of these windows, delays, checksums or limits. This means that
 the user will pay for a completely different program than he
 evaluated - which is not right, and gives us the legal right (within 
 Norway) to inform you how to alter the program to emulate the 
 registered one, or even register it. 
 
 Users from countries other than Norway must comply with the laws of 
 their respective country and must not use this program if the actions 
 taken by this program is against the law.


                          Pay for Shareware! 

 PC ONLINE SOFTWARE respects the shareware concept - try before you
 pay - and pay less than you do for commercial programs. We recommend
 that you pay for all shareware programs that you intend to use on a
 regular basis after a trial period.

 If you do not intend to buy them, NAG-BUSTER is not for you.
 To keep up with the good shareware traditions, the authors deserve to
 be paid the often symbolic sums of money for their products.
 A lot of work and effort has often been put into the development of
 shareware programs. 
 

                        How Do I Use NAG-BUSTER?

 Nothing could be simpler! NAG-BUSTER comes as a single executable
 file, with no configuration files, or overlays to keep track of. Just 
 run it directly off the distribution disk or run it off your hard disk 
 after copying it there. 

 When the main menu appears use your arrow keys or mouse to move the
 highlight bar to any option and press the Enter key (or click) to 
 select it. Selecting DOS or Windows shareware gives you another menu, 
 in which you can select a program for patching. Then you will be 
 prompted for the path and the patch will start. It's possible to stop 
 anywhere and you will be asked if you wish to continue. If the patch 
 is unsuccessful, you will be informed why.

 For speed and elegance, NAG-BUSTER does not search through an
 entire .EXE file for the specific bytes to change. Instead it goes
 directly to the pre-set offset and looks at the bytes there. If they
 differ from the pre-set bytes in NAG-BUSTER, the program cannot
 patch your .EXE file. This means that your .EXE file is not identical
 to the .EXE file that we used to test the patch. It has to be!
 
 If it is not identical, then your version is different, it may be
 patched already by yourself or others and should not be patched again.
 Your program may be compressed. NAG-BUSTER willl automatically try to
 decompress your program if it is compressed. NAG-BUSTER still needs
 the correct filesize to be certain that you have the correct version,
 so if the result of the compression of your program is a wrong file-
 size - that's too bad! A window will pop up telling you this and
 what you can do about it. In the DOS/Windows menus, you will now
 see that we have extended the menus with information of what 
 compression program that (is likely to have) compressed your program
 and a column showing what the patch does. Due to the lack of space, 
 we had to abbreviate some of the compression program names:
 TINYP. is an abbreviation for TINYPROG. EXEP. as in EXEPACK and
 COMP. as in COMPACK. The two latter is found in parentheses, which
 means that NAG-BUSTER do not have to decompress these programs in
 order to patch them. N/A means not applicable, i.e. an unknown
 compression method was used. We think that the column of what the 
 patch does is self-expanatory. 

 If you encounter difficulties in decompressing programs with
 NAG-BUSTER (due to lack of memory), try to decompress your program 
 manually. Then re-enter NAG-BUSTER.

 None of the Windows programs from the Windows menu is compressed.

 If a patch is successful, you will get a message and the NAG-BUSTER 
 will create, or append to a log file, information on what program is 
 patched and when.

 NAG-BUSTER removes protection by searching the program files for
 the data that need to be changed, and then making those changes
 with little or no intervention from you.

 Once the naggy screens are removed, you need not use NAG-BUSTER 
 again on that particular product. 

 As mentioned, this version of the NAG-BUSTER is a 'beta' version. 
 Therefore, PC ONLINE SOFTWARE will be greatful for any written 
 comments or questions, particularly if you encounter difficulties 
 or errors.
 
 New versions of NAG-BUSTER will probably be distributed twice a
 year, depending on the response from the users and the amount of
 new programs that need patching.

 And that's all there is to it! Remember that the altered files
 that are created by NAG-BUSTER are for your own use only and may
 not be given away or distributed another person in any form!


                              CONTACT US!

 Please feel free to contact us at our address (found under 
 Registration in the NAG-BUSTER's Main menu). Or you may upload a 
 message to the author Erik Famm at the following Norwegian Bulletin 
 Board Systems (use the POST conferences):
 
 Mike's BBS        phone no. +47-22-337020
 Byte BBS          phone no. +47-22-601545 

 Both boards are open around the clock and are compatible with the 
 V.32bis and HST standards.

 Your opinion is always welcome. We will try to answer all *written* 
 questions and suggestions.
 
 Enjoy the NAG-BUSTER!
