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[Continued] And even setting it to work for only 30 days after installation is weak. Many times, I've installed a program to check it out, and then not gotten back to it for months at a time. This even applies in my case to some retail software. Plus the easy way around it is to reinstall. The best system found so far is to include reminder screens of the program's shareware status. With maybe a 3 second delay or a random key that has to be hit to get rid of it. This too can be carried too far. After setting up Navigator on the Mac (a retail program) and TapCIS on my '386, I decided to setup Whap! on my Amiga (they won't let you register Whap! until you have it setup and running). While offline and using the Whap! program, it throws up a GUILT screen for something like 8 seconds (even on my 33 mhz '030) BEFORE and AFTER making a selection in the program. This meant that just INSTALLING the program had extra minutes added. This was so frustrating, guess what when into the bit bucket? (Yes I know it doesn't do it while online, supposedly, although it DID happen once when it took awhile for Whap! to realize I was online). So I use TapCIS on the PC exclusively for all my CIS work now. (When I have extra money to toss around and time to waste, I'll prolly grit my teeth, reinstall Whap! so I can order it). [More]