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- From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin)
- Subject: Re: Extension Languages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.064438.24211@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Chickenhawk Software
- References: <1992Dec28.131000.79@dallas.sil.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:44:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.131000.79@dallas.sil.org> titus@dallas.sil.org writes:
-
- > [...] DEC's TPU (Text PRocessing Utility) offers a real nice
- > language for implementing editors. You might want to have a
- > look at it, or the third-party implementation nu/TPU.
-
- I don't know about the merits of TPU in the abstract. I just want to
- discourage everyone from using nu/TPU. It is a real pain in the bottom.
- It has very restrictive `oh no, you have pirated me' code built into
- it. Now I have _not_ tried to pirate the damn thing, all I have
- tried to do is support it for my users in a distributed computing
- environment, and the pirate-detction stuff is very flakey: all
- you have to do, just about, is breathe on the environment it's
- installed in, and the damn thing decides it's been pirated and
- refuses to run any more. And naturally, they've taken the
- security-through-obscurity approach (probably because they
- couldn't make it secure any other way), so there's not a
- shred of documentation on this stuff to help you figure out
- what it was you did `wrong', or how to fix it or avoid
- doing it in the future.
-
- Set knows I'm opposed to commercial software in general, but
- this sort of thing really needs to be stamped out. Please
- do not buy nu/TPU.
-
- --
- John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
- Knox's box is a 286. Fox in Socks does hacks and tricks
- Knox's box is hard to fix. To fix poor Knox's box for kicks.
-