[PLUG] What's with 'nppdf32Log' and acroread 9?

[Galen Seitz]

On 03/04/14 13:02, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 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
...
> sudo perl -pi -e 's,C:\\nppdf32,/dev/null\0,' $pdfile

Nice.  Reminds of the time I got fed up with Altera's FPGA tools spewing 
100+ lines worth of 'We're so great, we have all these patents' on every 
invocation.  I used emacs to move the null to the beginning of the 
string within the executable.  Voilà, no more patents.

galen
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