yeah, how DO you do that?

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From: alan mead
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 04:56

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Here is an interesting post from comp.compression.  I would be interested
in creating the same effect.  Does anyone know how I might be able to do
so in Turbo Pascal (or ASM)?

>Path: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!cunyvm!byuvm!byuvax!physc1!pollarda
>From: pollarda@physc1.byu.edu
>Newsgroups: comp.compression
>Subject: Self Extracting Files
>Message-ID: <309pollarda@physc1.byu.edu>
>Date: 15 Jun 91 03:53:59 GMT
>Lines: 45


>[self extracting archiver questions deleted]
>
>While I am at it, a friend has shown me something else quite curious
>and I have told him I would try to find out what is going on. . .
>
>Some programs have something embeded in them so that if you "type"
>them, they will display the program name and the material will stop
>scrolling on the screen and the DOS prompt will appear again.
>
>e.g.
>
>C:> type program.exe
>
>The Software
>(c) 19xx The Software Co.
>
>C:>
>
>...
>Thanx a bunch,
>
>Art Pollard
>
>BitNet: PollardA@Xray.Byu.Edu

Would it be as simple as placing the string 

'The Software 0x10 0x13 (c) 1991 The Software Co. 0x1A' 

preceeded by a jmp 0x29 instruction?

-alan mead : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu

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From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead)
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Subject: yeah, how DO you do that?
Keywords: cool waste of programmer's time
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