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TagLine Generator for PMMail
Copyright 1996, Stephen Berg and Iceberg Software Productions
PMTagLine V 1.1a (Oct 21)
A REXX script for PMMail
Written by Stephen Berg
(C)1996 - Stephen Berg and Iceberg Software Productions
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Disclaimer
3. Installation
4. Using PMTagLine
4a. Let PMTagLine randomly pick a TagLine.
4b. Pick one from the file specifically.
4c. Input your own TagLine manually.
4d. Search for text and then choose.
4e. Bypass the TagLine insertion.
5. What-Not
6. Future development
7. Contact Info
8. History
*******************************************************
* 1. Introduction: *
*******************************************************
Thank you for getting this product, of course since it's free
you didn't have to work very hard did you? =:-) This REXX script was
writen in order to regain the TagLine features of the off-mail readers
I used back in my BBS'ing days. It's not quite as fully featured as
they were for the tagline thing, but it's a start anyway.
I wrote the script with VREXX2 which is an IBM Employee Written
Software product and available to anyone who has a valid licensed copy
of OS/2 as far as I know anyway. I'm distributing this script without the
VREXX product. You'll have to obtain it yourself. It can be found at the
following FTP site:
ftp://software.watson.ibm.com/pub/os2/ews/vrexx2.zip
The software is freeware but I'd appreciate an email to let me
now if you're using it.
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* 2. Disclaimer: *
*******************************************************
(That silly legal stuff)
The entire code is here for you to see, change, use or not use.
I will *NOT* be held responsible if your machine blows up, if your
Internet Provider disconnects you, if your significant other/wife/husband
leaves you, if the IRS audits you or anything else bad happens to you by
fault or not in this script. That's why it's free. And by using these
scripts you fully and without reservation accept these terms. If you
don't accept, then don't run these scripts, it won't effect my paycheck
either way. =:-)
I've tested it out pretty well on my system which is Warp 4.0
Fullpack running PMMail 1.52 and it seems to be very stable for me. If
you're running another OS/2 version or another PMMail version I can't be
so sure. Let me know if you have a different setup and whether or not
it's working for you.
*******************************************************
* 3. Installation: *
*******************************************************
Installing this script is rather easy, just make sure that the
TAGLINE.CMD and TAGLINE.TXT files are in the PMMail working directory.
This will be whereever your PMMAIL.EXE file is most likely, but you know
your system better than I. On my system that is C:\SOUTHSDE\PMMAIL, but
it may change if you installed PMMail elsewhere on your particular
system.
Once that's done, click on the "Account" pull down menu in
PMMail, select "Utilities Settings..." from that menu. When the
Utilities notebook comes up, select the "REXX Exits" tab.
There you'll see two different entries, click the box next to
"Message Send Exit". Then where it says "Script To Run" put in
"TAGLINE.CMD". That should do it. Whenever you send email out now you
should see a small dialog come up to choose how you want to handle the
tagline for that message.
*******************************************************
* 4. Using PMTagLine: *
*******************************************************
When PMTagLine starts up it presents a radio button dialog so you
can choose how it works for that individual message. There are four
choices available:
4a. Let PMTagLine randomly pick a TagLine.
This function will randomly pick a tagline from the TAGLINE.TXT
file and insert it at the bottom of your outgoing mail.
4b. Pick one from the file specifically.
This function will display a dialog that you can browse through
the taglines in TAGLINE.TXT and pick one individually to be added to your
outgoing mail.
4c. Input your own TagLine manually.
This function will allow you to add your own tagline manually to
be added to your outgoing mail.
4d. Search for text and then choose.
This will allow you to search for a particular string of text and
then pick a tagline from any taglines that match. If the string that you
are searching for is not found, PMTagLine will return to the initial choice
selection dialog. (NOTE: At first I had this return to the string input
dialog to do another search, but decided that if one didn't match people
might want to just go for a random pick. I may have it give you the choice
in a future version. This was easier for me at this point of my under-
standing of VREXX.)
4e. Bypass the TagLine insertion.
This function just exits the script and allows the message to go
out without any tagline being added.
*******************************************************
* 5. What-Not *
*******************************************************
Please let me know if you have any problems with this script or
find any bugs. It's working rather smoothly for me, but that's only one
system. You can email me at "sberg@southwind.com" or find me on IRC,
using "SSgt" for a nick, EFNet and usually in #OS/2.
I have heard that PMTagLine gets confused it you're using an
extremely large file for your taglines. I can't say right now whether it's
REXX, VREXX, my code or OS/2 that is causing the problem. Maybe I'll get
a chance to play with that and try to narrow it down some. As is it should
work as long as the tagline.txt file isn't incredibly large.
As for "TagNapping" incoming taglines, see below. In the meantime
a couple of users have informed me that they keep a shadow object of their
tagline.txt file handy and if they see one that they want to swipe they do
a quick cut/paste to the tagline.txt file.
*******************************************************
* 6. Future development: *
*******************************************************
I'm running a few thoughts around in my head about how to scan
incoming messages for taglines and make it possible to "TagNap" them into
your own TAGLINE.TXT file. Right now I don't know of an easy way to do
this since the incoming message REXX hook would be called for each and
every message that is received. Since I get around 100 messages a day I'm
not gonna want that to happen to myself so I won't do it to you either.
I did get one suggestion to allow choosing different text files
to get the taglines. I hope to add in that functionality sometime soon.
I just had a thought about confirming any randomly chosen tagline
before it actually gets added. If refused I could either go back to
choose another random tagline or restart the process entirely, not sure
which would be easier or more comfy for you or if this would be a wanted
feature in the first place. Drop me line via email with a suggestion on
this one and I'll go from there.
*******************************************************
* 7. Contact Info: *
*******************************************************
Stephen Berg
IceBerg Software Productions
sberg@southwind.com
http://www.southwind.com/sberg/
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* 8. History: *
*******************************************************
Version 1.1a
Fixed the txt file name, it was taglines.txt in the archive but
the script was looking for tagline.txt. Thanks to Murray
Weismer for finding this and bringing it to my attention.
Fixed one mistake in this file, maybe I'll proofread it again before
I save it this time. =:-)
Added in a couple more ideas about future features.
Version 1.1
Cleaned up a couple of small bugs.
Added in the "Search and choose function"
Reviewed the tagline.txt file, took out a few that were not
very funny (IMHO) and a few that were really outdated.
Version 1.0
Initial release of PM TagLine.