Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!nayeri From: nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Snubbing emulators Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 23:13:20 GMT References: <7876.271B9F29@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> <1990Oct21.034446.9842@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Oct22.203332.29159@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1990Oct31.165428.22226@sisd.kodak.com> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: nayeri@cs.umass.edu Distribution: na Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 35 In-reply-to: jeh@sisd.kodak.com's message of 31 Oct 90 16:54:28 GMT In article <1990Oct31.165428.22226@sisd.kodak.com> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes: wieser@cs-sun-fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) writes: >I would like to have >my software NOT run when it sees an emulator. And while you're at it, why limit yourself to hardware checks? Scan the user's disk and refuse to run if you find any disk copying programs, because only pirates use those, right? How about having the user fill in a questionare and disabling the program if you don't agree with his political beliefs? I just couldn't stop myself from posting this extract of the manpage on dvips for you: It is a great piece of software! > >SEE ALSO > mf(1), afm2tfm(1), tex(1), latex(1), lpr(1) > >BUGS > Rejects any file with the string "IBM" in it. This is con- > sidered to be a feature by some. > >AUTHOR > Tomas Rokicki ; extended to vir- > tual fonts by Don Knuth. > But I think this one is supposed to be a joke. --farshad -- Farshad Nayeri Object Oriented Systems Group nayeri@cs.umass.edu Dept. of Computer and Information Science (413)545-0256 University of Massachusetts at Amherst