On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:30:35PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > I updated Adobe's acrobat reader (acroread) from version 7 to version 9. I > now find a directory in my home directory called C:\nppdf32Log\ that > contains a single log file.
That bothers me too, sometimes. Annoying me is one thing, annoying my friend Rich and other PLUGgers cannot be tolerated. So, I hacked up a shell/perl script that fixes this, download from http://keithl.com/fixpdf.sh Please, please, PLEASE "real" programmers, rewrite this so it cannot eat file systems, cause jock itch, or make Bill Gates and Richard Stallman sleep together: --------------------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------------- $ cat fixpdf.sh #!/usr/bin/bash ### cheesy shell/perl script by the inept Keith Lofstrom v0.1 2014 Mar 4 ### please ask a Real Programmer(tm) if this will work before you run it echo "----------------------------------------------------------" echo "this script fixes pdf so it doesn't create annoying" echo "C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt files in the runtime directory" echo "It does so by modifying all copies of the library nppdf.so" echo echo " run this as sudo sh $0" echo echo "locating and if necessary modifying all nppdf.so libraries" echo "----------------------------------------------------------" echo "for each library, the string \"C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt\" is" echo "replaced with /dev/null" echo "----------------------------------------------------------" echo "Updating locate database" echo "----------------------------------------------------------" sudo updatedb echo "locating and updating each nppdf.so file" pdtime=`date +.%F.%T` echo "----------------------------------------------------------" for pdfile in `locate nppdf.so|grep nppdf.so\$` do pdfiletime="$pdfile$pdtime" echo "backing up file $pdfile" echo "to $pdfiletime" sudo cp $pdfile $pdfiletime echo "modifying file $pdfile" sudo perl -pi -e 's,C:\\nppdf32,/dev/null\0,' $pdfile echo done --------------------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------------- Keith P.S. - Adobe: you should be ashamed of yourselves. John Warnock gets a wedgie the next time we meet for cocktails. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
