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You won't be able to retire on this,but the Compendium will pay $10 fortips sent in by readers that appear inthe User Notes column. In case ofduplicate tips, the earliest receivedwill be used. We are most interested inpublishing information that will be ofinterest to BASIC and ExtendedBASIC programmers. Ideas that helpusers overcome hardware problemsor limitations are also welcome.Please send items to the Compendium,P.O. Box 1343, Round Rock, TX 78680.Include your name, phone number andaddress with each submission. Unusedsubmissions cannot be acknowledgedor returned. ==Nonstop running== Protecting software from beingcopied is an increasing problem for TIhome computer programmers. Whilethis tip isn't going to stop everyonefrom copying an Extended BASICprogram, it will stymie most. The CentralIowa 99/4A Users Group suggeststhat in addition to using the ExtendedBASIC p ro tection feature, programmersincluded an ON BREAKNEXT command to prevent their programsfrom being cleared. This commanddisables the CLEAR (Function4) key so that the program can't bestopped after the RUN command isissued. ==Test screens==