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<h1>Run Perl 6 now -- in your browser!</h1>
<p>Welcome to <tt>runpugs</tt>, a web terminal for <a href="http://www.pugscode.org">pugs</a>. Pugs is an implementation of <a href="http://dev.perl.org/perl6/">Perl 6</a> which aims to implement the full Perl 6 specification.</p>
<p><tt>runpugs</tt> currently lives <a
href="http://feather.perl6.nl:8080/cgi-bin/runpugs">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>Instructions:</em> <tt>runpugs</tt> presents the pugs interactive shell. Only
the line typed at the last prompt is sent to pugs. Type <code>:h</code> for
help, <code>:q</code> to quit. <br><em>Please</em> be considerate and do close your
pugs session with <code>:q</code> before you close the browser window.<br>Type <code>clear</code> to clear the web terminal (this command is not sent to pugs).</p>
<p>Because this is a web terminal, a number of restrictions apply:</p>
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<li><The code>pugs</code> shell runs in <em>safe mode</em>, so system-related calls are disabled.</li>
<li>If a call takes too long, the <code>pugs</code> session will time out.</li>
<li>If left idle for too long, the <code>pugs</code> session will time out.</li>
<li>The total number of sessions and number of sessions from a given IP address are limited.</li>
<li>Memory available to <code>pugs</code> is severely limited. </li>
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<p>The current values relating to the above restrictions are:</p>
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<li>Total number of sessions: 50</li>
<li>Inactivity time-out: 10 minutes</li>
<li>"Long" call time-out: 10 seconds</li>
<li>Sessions per IP: 10</li>
<li>Available memory: 64M.</li>
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<p>All of these are open to change if they would prove to be too restrictive.</p>
<p><tt>runpugs</tt> is a very young project, and there will certainly be some bugs. Some known issues are:</p>
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<li>Unicode is not supported.</li>
<li>There is no command history.</li>
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<p>You can find the source code for <tt>runpugs</tt> (in Perl 5) in the <a href="http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/">pugs subversion repository</a> under <code>/misc/runpugs</code>.
<p>Thank you for trying <tt>pugs</tt> and <tt>runpugs</tt>!</p>
<p class="copyright">© Copyright 2006 by Wim Vanderbauwhede</p>
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