Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

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Hello Mortifis,

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to
a message post?

SBBS has an optional signature in the default user config. It's not random though but I think all SBBSs editors will use it.

Some editors like Syledit support taglines optionaly.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Jul 14 2019 02:58 pm

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

I have a timed event which modifies my .sig file with random quotes and current weather data. You could do something similar or if you use an editor which has a random tagline feature, use that.

digital man

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Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Jul 14 2019 02:58 pm

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

I have a timed event which modifies my .sig file with random quotes and current weather data. You could do something similar or if you use an editor which has a random tagline feature, use that.

digital man

hrmph, where are the .sig files stored? I am not going to ask for free code to do it with :-P


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Hello Mortifis,

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

SBBS has an optional signature in the default user config. It's not random though but I think all SBBSs editors will use it.

Some editors like Syledit support taglines optionaly.

Thank you, Al, I manually go into default settings and update my signature, I was just wondering how to go about randomizing the process :-)


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Hello Mortifis,

Thank you, Al, I manually go into default settings and update my signature, I was just wondering how to go about randomizing the
process :-)

My sig file is in data/users/0001.sig, yours is probably the same or there abouts. Exactly how to randomize it I'm not sure. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to Alan Ianson on Sun Jul 14 2019 10:19 pm

Some editors like Syledit support taglines optionaly.

Thank you, Al, I manually go into default settings and update my signature, I was just wondering how to go about randomizing the process :-)

here is a perl code i use to randomize a file of quotes

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# @(#) randomize Effectively _unsort_ a text file into random order.
# 96.02.26 / drl.
# Based on Programming Perl, p 245, "Selecting random element ..."

# Set the random seed, PP, p 188
srand(time|$$);

# Suck in everything in the file.
@a = <>;

# Get random lines, write 'em out, mark 'em done.
while ( @a ) {
$choice = splice(@a, rand @a, 1);
print $choice;
}
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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to Digital Man on Sun Jul 14 2019 10:16 pm

Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Jul 14 2019 02:58 pm

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

I have a timed event which modifies my .sig file with random quotes and current weather data. You could do something similar or if you use an editor which has a random tagline feature, use that.

hrmph, where are the .sig files stored? I am not going to ask for free code to do it with :-P

data/user/####.sig

digital man

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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to Alan Ianson on Sun Jul 14 2019 10:19 pm

Hello Mortifis,

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

SBBS has an optional signature in the default user config. It's not random though but I think all SBBSs editors will use it.

Some editors like Syledit support taglines optionaly.

Thank you, Al, I manually go into default settings and update my signature, I was just wondering how to go about randomizing the process :-)

Here's the script I run to randomize my tagline (pulls a random line from 3 differnet randomly chosen files):

// Re-create signature file with random Snapple "Real Fact"

const syncfacts = 0, acronyms = 1, tapquotes = 2;
var type = random(3);
var fname;

//print("type = " + type);
switch(type) {
case syncfacts:
fname = system.data_dir + "syncfact.lst";
break;
case acronyms:
fname = system.data_dir + "acronyms.local.conf";
break;
case tapquotes:
fname = system.data_dir + "tapquotes.lst";
break;
}

f = new File(fname);
if(!f.open("r")) {
alert("Error opening " + fname);
exit();
}

var list = f.readAll();
f.close();

//print("randomizing: " + list.length);
i = random(list.length);
//print("done: " + i);

var line = list[i].split(/\s+/);

f = new File(system.data_dir + "user/0001.sig");
if(!f.open("r+"))
exit();
var text = f.readAll();
f.length = 0;
f.position = 0;
switch(type) {
case acronyms:
text[3] = "Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #" + (i+1) + ":"; text[4] = line.shift() + " = " + line.join(' ');
break;
case syncfacts:
text[3] = "Synchronet \"Real Fact\" #" + (i+1) + ":";
text[4] = list[i];
break;
case tapquotes:
text[3] = "This Is Spinal Tap quote #" + (i+1) + ":";
text[4] = list[i];
break;
}
f.writeAll(text);
f.close();


digital man

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Re: Random Signitures
By: Mortifis to All on Sun Jul 14 2019 02:58 pm

Is there a mechanism for having a random tagline or signiture added to a message post?

SlyEdit (message editor) has an option for adding a tagline to a message, and it has an option to add a random tagline (in addition to letting you choose a tagline yourself).

Nightfox

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El 14/7/19 a las 22:36, Alan Ianson escribió:

Hello Mortifis,

Thank you, Al, I manually go into default settings and update my signature, I was just wondering how to go about randomizing the
process :-)

My sig file is in data/users/0001.sig, yours is probably the same or there abouts. Exactly how to randomize it I'm not sure. :)

you can exec from JS with

sort -R MySignatures.txt | head -n1 > data/user/YOUR_USER_ID.sig

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: Ragnarok to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 15 2019 03:31 pm

My sig file is in data/users/0001.sig, yours is probably the same or there abouts. Exactly how to randomize it I'm not sure. :)

you can exec from JS with

sort -R MySignatures.txt | head -n1 > data/user/YOUR_USER_ID.sig

sort -R in windows is reverse, in linux it's random
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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: MRO to Ragnarok on Mon Jul 15 2019 15:57:46

you can exec from JS with

sort -R MySignatures.txt | head -n1 > data/user/YOUR_USER_ID.sig

sort -R in windows is reverse, in linux it's random

is there a difference between -R and -r on winwhatever?
is that the default sort? when did they start shipping one with it?

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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: Rampage to MRO on Mon Jul 15 2019 05:51 pm

sort -R MySignatures.txt | head -n1 > data/user/YOUR_USER_ID.sig

sort -R in windows is reverse, in linux it's random

is there a difference between -R and -r on winwhatever?

they only have reverse.

is that the default sort? when did they start shipping one with it?

yep. it's in system32. they've had sort.exe for a long time.
internets say since dos v2
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Digital Man wrote to Mortifis <=-

I have a timed event which modifies my .sig file with random quotes and current weather data. You could do something similar or if you use an editor which has a random tagline feature, use that.

One interesting feature might be to have separate .sigs for each
network?


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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Mon Jul 15 2019 06:23 am

Digital Man wrote to Mortifis <=-

I have a timed event which modifies my .sig file with random quotes and current weather data. You could do something similar or if you use an editor which has a random tagline feature, use that.

One interesting feature might be to have separate .sigs for each
network?

I'll add it to the to-do list.

digital man

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On 07-15-19 22:06, MRO wrote to Rampage <=-

yep. it's in system32. they've had sort.exe for a long time.
internets say since dos v2

Yep, I remember SORT.EXE back in the DOS days. Could probably drag up a DOS copy on an old backup. And DOS 2.x sounds about right.


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Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Mon Jul 15 2019 06:23 am

One interesting feature might be to have separate .sigs for each
network?

I had thought about possibly doing something like that with SlyEdit. SlyEdit does have a feature where it can auto-sign your name to messages, and if enabled, it can sign with your handle (where allowed) or your real name (if the sub-board doesn't allow handles).

Nightfox

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I had thought about possibly doing something like that with SlyEdit. SlyEdit does have a feature where it can auto-sign your name to
messages, and if enabled, it can sign with your handle (where allowed)
or your real name (if the sub-board doesn't allow handles).

That sounds good. I'd mentioned separate per-network .sigs, but I
don't rely on the FTN address in my .sig, so real names/handles would
work just as well and not need any network intelligence.



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El 15/7/19 a las 17:57, MRO escribió:

Re: Re: Random Signitures
By: Ragnarok to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 15 2019 03:31 pm

My sig file is in data/users/0001.sig, yours is probably the same or there
abouts. Exactly how to randomize it I'm not sure. :)

you can exec from JS with

sort -R MySignatures.txt | head -n1 > data/user/YOUR_USER_ID.sig

sort -R in windows is reverse, in linux it's random
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