Re: Anyway to randomize sig files?
From Patrick Amato <as3...@macbeth.umd.edu>
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· 15 Dec 1994 21:57 · View full thread
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In article <3cppfl$mc...@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>, [deleted talk about randomizing sigs.] > > >How about with Pine? Any way possible? As you know Pine uses the file .signature (sp?) as its default signature. I think you may have to set the option to"on" but you get the point. Now, the key then is to get the file .signature to change. Let say you keep your sigs like this (by filename) .sig0 .sig1 .sig2 and so on. Then a script would simply have to 1) rm .signature 2) generate a random number 3) use that number to pick one of the .sig# files. This script could be run by a cron job or you could execute it by calling it in your .login file. Of cousre the permission on the script would have to be 700 or 755.. ect. Type "man sh" for some insights. For those who dont know much about UNIX this may sound like a bunch of jibberish. In that case perhaps someone who has such a script would be willing to share it.. Dan, if you know the programming language "C" I would be willing to send you the code that changes the assci image in the motd every day. If you know "C" you could easily modify to generate a random .signature every time you executed the program. ltr-p- >Dan (+:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1bf4e46a52a72b7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-15 13:57:21 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: as3...@macbeth.umd.edu (Patrick Amato) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Anyway to randomize sig files? Date: 15 Dec 1994 16:57:21 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3cqe41$as...@macbeth.umd.edu> References: <345...@student.msu.edu> <3cppfl$mc...@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: macbeth.umd.edu
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