Seems that Adobe has given up on releasing Framemaker, and the beta
expires on Dec 31.
Reading the story on Linux Today, I noticed a really cool little
tool: to lie to an application and force the time/date. No more
expiring demo software.
Cut & pasted for your approval:
This quick hack should probably work. Paste this into a file called
pre.c:
--- CUT HERE ---
#define SECONDS 975421904
struct timeval {
long tv_sec;
long tv_usec;
};
int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, void *tz)
{
tv->tv_sec = SECONDS;
tv->tv_usec = 0;
}
long time(long *t)
{
if(t) *t = SECONDS;
return SECONDS;
}
--- CUT HERE ---
Build it with:
gcc -c pre.c
ld -shared -o pre.so pre.o
Run it with:
LD_PRELOAD=./pre.so name_of_program_to_run
Basically it replaces gettimeofday() and time() with stubs which
return a fixed value. Email if you want a
version which gets the real time of day and subtracts some amount
from it instead (I wrote that first, then
realised that you wanted a version which returned a fixed time).
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
