🚀 go-pugleaf

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.