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From: "Raymond C. Stoecklin" <stoecklin.raymond@ch.swissbank.com>
Subject: Re: VA: 3.0a Evaluation Copy Problem
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Dave Olson wrote:
> 
> I am head of a 3 person team evaluating VA 3.0a for a future project.
> IBM sent us an evaluation CD with a time limit of 60 days.  This was
> installed on two of the three machines without incident.  The third
> machine was a hand-me-down from another department and it seems that they
> had done an evaluation of VA a couple of years ago.  As a result of some
> residual timestamp, when VA was installed, a message was issued saying
> that the evaluation period had already expired.
> [ .. ]
> 
> 1.  Can anyone help with some sort of workaround?

Hi Dave,
I had the same problem using VA on Win 3.11 some time ago.
The installation program inserted a section in a windows ini- file
(win.ini, I think). After deleting this section, I could re-install it.

	Ray
