Answer: What call do you make to get a random selection???
Bruce Laplante (ccb...@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us) wrote:
: Danni Bauer (bau...@gtetel.com) wrote:
: : David S. Issel (dis...@nunic.nu.edu) wrote:
: : > +------ Ryan Tucker (rtu...@worf.infonet.net) wrote: -----------
: : > |
: : > | If you're using "tin", there's a way to have tin randomly select a sig
: : > | out of a directory. If anyone's interested, I can take a clip out of the
: : > | man page :-)
: : Simply create a directory in your $HOME directory called .Sig
: : Any file in that directory will be in the list that tin will use
: : to randomly select a signature. Also, if you create a file in your
: : $HOME called .sigfixed, that file will ALWAYS be included above
:
: }snip{
: OK, but what call do you make to get a random selection???
: i.e: I use [ESC] :r filename.sig
All you have to do is post something and tin will randomly select a file
in you signature directory and put it at the end of the post.
-Harry
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