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- README file for shop
- ====================
-
- Howdy. This program is called shop, and it is extremely silly.
- It generates a random shopping list of deranged items. Such as:
-
- Here is your shopping list:
- (1) Buy & Break rooster skis
- (2) Inelegant sofas
- (3) Polemical breath lesions
-
- You can do all manner of ridiculous things with this. For example,
- the xterm window I'm working in right now bears the title
- "Antagonistic snore bacon." Also, this is nice to put in a
- C shell .logout program.
-
- Some people (like me) find this sort of thing funny, but don't worry...
- we're getting professional help.
-
- The pindex program, also posted to alt.sources, is required for the use
- of shop. Be sure to install it, including the patch which updates pindex.c
- to revision 2.2, before installing shop.
-
- Here's what this package contains:
-
- README
- This file.
- shop.6
- The troff -man source for the man page.
- shop.lp
- A man page suitable for printing on a line printer.
- A PostScript copy of the man page has also been posted to
- alt.sources.
- Makefile
- A makefile for the whole package. You'll want to get in
- and edit the first part of this, since it contains a whole
- bunch of configurable items.
- nouns.raw
- adjs.raw
- The program's vocabulary, in a non-indexed format. adjs.raw
- contains one adjective-like thing per line. nouns.raw contains
- pairs of lines: the first line in each pair is a noun-like thing,
- and the second line is its plural form (or, if for some reason
- it's not workable, some other plural or collective thing). Of
- course, you may customize these.
- The makefile for shop runs pindex to translate these files into
- the indexed format which shop requires.
- shop.c
- shop.h
- axatchar.c
- capwords.c
- getcount.c
- getitem.c
- getnth.c
- my_rand.c
- Various source modules for shop proper. Note especially
- my_rand.c; it contains a random number function which returns
- a long integer. If my_rand.c doesn't compile on your system,
- you can just supply your own equivalent module.
-
- I've successfully compiled this package on DG/UX, SunOS, and vanilla
- SVR4 systems. I'd like to hear of people's experiences with setting
- up the package under other operating systems; my e-mail address
- is rice@dg-rtp.dg.com . Also, please drop me a note concerning
- bugs, enhancements, and amusing applications.
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