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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!neilb
  2. From: neilb@scs.leeds.ac.uk (Neil Bowers)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.hackers
  4. Subject: Re: making the named pipe work on a cluster
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul27.211627.1584@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jul 92 21:16:27 GMT
  7. References: <14q0udINNl6o@agate.berkeley.edu> <end1H060q8@atlantis.psu.edu> <1992Jul27.190402.13876@bradley.bradley.edu>
  8. Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
  9. Distribution: usa
  10. Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
  11. Lines: 18
  12. Approved: jef@netcom.com
  13.  
  14. pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes:
  15. >Ok, drop the other shoe, then.
  16. >
  17. >I don't want code, just an idea of what a better solution for a random
  18. >sig generator would be.
  19.  
  20. Couple of quick ideas, depends on how often you want to change your sig
  21.  
  22. daily:    setup a script which soft-links .signature to one of your collection
  23.     of signatures.
  24.  
  25. each rn session:
  26.     have a script "my<newsreader>", which makes a soft-link before exec'ing
  27.     <newsreader>
  28.  
  29. every post:
  30.     take a copy of (Pnews|inews) and modify it, to pick a different sig
  31.     each time
  32.