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- This program is a very simple random name generator for use
- with roleplaying games. It produces surprisingly good names
- for the very simple method used. The names tend to be exotic,
- since 'X' and 'Z' have the same chance of coming up as 'T' and
- 'N'. Many of the names have a Japanese or African flavor. Some
- of my favorites came in the first page generated: Zozaras, Lyxam,
- Rux, and Zelica.
-
- The program 'name.c' produces the names, and two scripts are
- included to formats them into pages: names.csh and names.sh,
- for C-shell and Bourne shell, respectively. Instructions for
- changing the distribution of letters are given in comments in
- name.c.
-
- These programs have been tested on an Apollo DN330 with both
- BSD4.2 and Sys V, and on BSD4.3. The makefile and names.csh
- script have Sys V versions commented out. The changes for
- MS-DOS similar to the ones used here have been tested, but
- the specific changes for MS-DOS in this program have not.
-
- Send any changes or updates to me:
-
- Brett Slocum UUCP: ...uunet!hi-csc!slocum
- Arpa: hi-csc!slocum@uunet.uu.net
- "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
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