Use the Free date routine on JAZZ. It works
Set it back a year

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Frohlich [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: Speededit licensing expiry

My copy of SpeedEdit has 'died'. When trying to load a file for editing
I get the messages:-

'Making work copy'
'INVALID FILE REFERENCE (FSERR 54)'

- and the file won't load.

I looked in my manual and found a section on Work Files. When editing a
file Speed Edit creates a work file to hold the changes: it uses a
structured name for the work file. According to the manual " ... the
first character of the [work] file name represents the year the [work]
file was created, the letter A indicating 1980, B 1981 etc." Therefore Z
was 2005 and so there is no letter for 2006! SpeedEdit may be trying to
use the next character in the ASCII table, which is probably
non-numeric, resulting in an invalid MPE file name. A very neat way of
making software expire. I suppose the authors didn't think anyone would
be using SpeedEdit in 2006!

Has anyone got any ideas on how to get around this problem?

Paul Frohlich
DMX Music, UK.

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