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Path: sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!juvat!jim From: jim@juvat.UUCP (Jim Kunzman) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps Subject: Random Jargon file phrase selector Distribution: world Message-ID: <712122376snx@juvat.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 03:46:16 GMT Organization: Headhunters (80th TFS, USAF/PACAF) Lines: 1913 We have a perl script to generate random jargon file entries for our UNIX machines. Normally, they are invoked when the user logs in. I decided to add the same feature for OS/2, but using the recently posted jargon .inf files. I decided to write it in Rexx since rexx is supplied with OS/2. /****************************************************************/ /* jargon.cmd: A Rexx script (wrapper) for the jargon file */ /****************************************************************/ /* Here is a little ditty to invoke the jargon file */ /* reader with a random line selection. I was going */ /* to use a queue to read all of the lines, but perfor- */ /* mance was miserable, so I settled upon the following */ /* script. This of course means that I must know the */ /* number of lines in the phrase file, but I had to get */ /* the phrases from Jargon's index into jargon.wds */ /* anyway, so that was no problem. To retrieve a */ /* random jargon file phrase invoke the script thusly: */ /* */ /* jargon */ /* */ /* You can also invoke the script with an optional */ /* parameter, so you don't lose the function of the */ /* original program. For example, */ /* */ /* jargon newbie */ /* */ /* will invoke the jargon program and locate the phrase */ /* 'newbie.' */ /* */ /* Copy everything between the Cut Lines at the end of */ /* the REXX script to a file called jargon.wds and */ /* be sure the resulting jargon.wds file has 1817 lines. */ /* Put the file jargon.wds in your 'jargon' directory. */ /* Then just delete everything at the end of the script */ /* below including the *two* Cut Lines. Name the */ /* script 'jargon.cmd' and put it somewhere in your path. */ /* Before running the script modify the Drive and Path */ /* variables below as appropriate for your environment. */ /* Share and enjoy. */ /****************************************************************/ foo=setlocal() /* Use a local environment in the script */ Drive="e:" /* Set YOUR jargon drive here */ Path="\jargon" /* Set YOUR jargon drirectory path here */ error=0 /* Create an EnvVar including all jargon files */ Jargon='INT299.INF+'||'1VOL299.INF+'||'2VOL299.INF+'||'APP299.INF' env='OS2ENVIRONMENT' foo=value('JARGON',Jargon,env) /* Change dir to jargon Drive/Directory */ CurrentDir=directory(Drive||Path) JargonPhrase=arg(1) /* if there is an argument on the command */ /* line then use it as the search phrase */ if JargonPhrase == "" then /* No command line argument, so */ do /* pick a line number at random */ BeginLines=1 EndLines=1817 curline=RANDOM(BeginLines,EndLines) fname="jargon.wds" /* Insure that the jargon.wds file exists, else exit */ call stream fname, C, 'query exists' if result \= "" then do until lines(fname) == 0 | curline == 0 JargonPhrase = linein(fname) curline=curline-1 end else do say "jargon.wds not found" error = 1 end end if error == 0 then do cmdline='VIEW' 'JARGON' JargonPhrase /* make the command line */ /* ***Debug*** */ /* say 'cmdline=' cmdline */ cmdline /* Execute resulting command line */ end foo=endlocal() /* and reset the environment */ /****************************************************************/ /* End of jargon.cmd Rexx script */ /****************************************************************/ ----Cut Line------Cut Line------Cut Line------Cut Line------Cut Line---- \047Snooze $TM$ -oid -ware /dev/null 120 reset 2 @-party @Begin abbrev ABEND accumulator ACK ad-hockery Ada adger admin ADVENT AI koans AI-complete AIDS AIDX airplane rule aliasing bug all-elbows alpha particles ALT alt bit Aluminum Book amoeba amp off amper angle brackets angry fruit salad annoybot AOS app arc arc wars archive arena arg armor-plated asbestos asbestos cork award asbestos longjohns ASCII ASCII art autobogotiphobia automagically avatar awk back door backbone cabal backbone site backgammon background backspace and overstrike backward combatability BAD Bad Thing bag on the side bagbiter bamf banana label banana problem bandwidth bang bang on bang path banner bar bare metal barf barfmail barfulation barfulous barney baroque BartleMUD BASIC batch bathtub curve baud baud barf baz bboard BBS beam beanie key beep beige toaster bells and whistles bells, whistles, and gongs benchmark Berkeley Quality Software berklix berserking Berzerkeley beta BFI bible BiCapitalization biff BIFF Big Gray Wall big iron Big Red Switch Big Room, the big win big-endian bignum bit bit bang bit bashing bit bucket bit decay bit rot bit twiddling bit-paired keyboard bitblt BITNET bits bitty box bixie black art black hole black magic blargh blast blat bletch bletcherous blinkenlights blit blitter blivet BLOB block block transfer computations blow an EPROM blow away blow out blow past blow up BLT Blue Book Blue Glue blue goo blurgle BNF boa board boat anchor BOF bogo-sort bogometer bogon bogon filter bogon flux bogosity bogotify bogue out bogus Bohr bug boink bomb bondage-and-discipline language bonk/oif book titles boot bottom-up implementation bounce bounce message box boxed comments boxen boxology bozotic BQS brain dump brain fart brain-damaged brain-dead braino branch to Fishkill brand brand brand break break-even point breath-of-life packet breedle bring X to its knees brittle broadcast storm broken broken arrow broket Brooks\047s Law BRS brute force brute force and ignorance BSD bubble sort bucky bits buffer overflow bug bug-compatible bug-for-bug compatible buglix bulletproof bum bump burble buried treasure burn-in period burst page busy-wait buzz BWQ by hand byte bytesexual bzzzt, wrong C C Programmer\047s Disease calculator can candygrammar canonical card card walloper careware cargo cult programming case and paste casters-up mode casting the runes cat catatonic cd tilde cdr chad chad box chain channel channel hopping channel op chanop char charityware chase pointers chemist Chernobyl chicken Chernobyl packet chicken head chiclet keyboard chine nual Chinese Army technique choke chomp chomper CHOP Christmas tree Christmas tree packet chrome chug Church of the SubGenius CI$ Cinderella Book Classic C clean CLM clobber clocks clone clover key clustergeeking COBOL COBOL fingers code grinder code police codewalker coefficient of X cokebottle cold boot COME FROM comm mode command key comment out Commonwealth Hackish compact compiler jock compress Compu$erve computer confetti computer geek computron condition out condom confuser connector conspiracy cons considered harmful console console jockey content-free control-C control-O control-Q control-S Conway\047s Law cookbook cooked mode cookie cookie bear cookie file cookie monster copious free time copper copy protection copybroke copyleft copywronged core core dump core leak Core Wars corge cosmic rays cough and die cowboy CP/M CPU Wars cracker cracking crank crash crash and burn crawling horror cray cray instability crayola crayon creationism creeping elegance creeping featurism creeping featuritis cretin cretinous crippleware critical mass crlf crock cross-post crudware cruft cruft together cruftsmanship crufty crumb crunch cruncha cruncha cruncha cryppie CTSS CTY cube cubing cursor dipped in X cuspy cut a tape cybercrud cyberpunk cyberspace cycle cycle crunch cycle drought cycle of reincarnation cycle server D. C. Power Lab daemon dangling pointer dark-side hacker Datamation day mode dd DDT de-rezz dead dead code DEADBEEF deadlock deadly embrace death code Death Star DEC Wars DEChead deckle deep hack mode deep magic deep space defenestration defined as dehose delint delta demented demigod demo demo mode demon depeditate deprecated deserves to lose desk check Devil Book devo dickless workstation dictionary flame diddle die die horribly diff digit dike ding dink dinosaur dinosaur pen dinosaurs mating dirtball dirty power Discordianism disk farm display hack Dissociated Press distribution do protocol doc doco documentation dodgy dogcow dogwash domainist Don\047t do that, then! dongle dongle-disk donuts doorstop dot file double bucky double DECkers doubled sig down download DP DPB DPer dragon Dragon Book drain dread high-bit disease DRECNET driver droid drool-proof paper drop on the floor drop-ins drop-outs drugged drunk mouse syndrome Duff\047s device dumbass attack dumbed down dump dumpster diving dup killer dup loop dusty deck DWIM dynner earthquake Easter egg Easter egging eat flaming death EBCDIC echo eighty-column mind El Camino Bignum elder days elegant elephantine elevator controller ELIZA effect elvish EMACS email emoticon empire engine English enhancement ENQ EOF EOL EOU epoch epsilon epsilon squared era, the Eric Conspiracy Eris erotics error 33 essentials evil exa- examining the entrails EXCH excl EXE exec exercise, left as an eyeball search fab face time factor fall over fall through fandango on core FAQ list FAQL farming fascist fat electrons faulty fd leak fear and loathing feature feature creature feature key feature shock featurectomy feep feeper feeping creature feeping creaturism feetch feetch fence fencepost error fepped out FidoNet field circus field servoid Fight-o-net File Attach File Request filk film at 11 filter Finagle\047s Law fine finger finger-pointing syndrome finn firebottle firefighting firehose syndrome firewall code firewall machine fireworks mode firmy fish FISH queue fix flag flag day flaky flamage flame flame bait flame on flame war flamer flap flarp flat flat-ASCII flat-file flatten flavor flavorful flippy flood flowchart flower key flush Flyspeck 3 flytrap FM FOAF FOD fold case followup fontology foo foobar fool fool file, the Foonly footprint for free for the rest of us for values of fora foreground fork bomb forked Fortrash fortune cookie forum fossil four-color glossies fragile fred frednet freeware freeze fried friode fritterware frob frobnicate frobnitz frog frogging front end frotz frotzed frowney fry FTP FUBAR fuck me harder FUD FUD wars fudge fudge factor fuel up fuggly fum funky funny money fuzzball G gabriel gag gang bang garbage collect garply gas gaseous GC GCOS GECOS gedanken geef geek out gen gender mender General Public Virus generate gensym Get a life! Get a real computer! GFR gig giga- GIGO gillion GIPS glark glass glass tty glassfet glitch glob glork glue gnarly GNU GNUMACS go flatline go root go-faster stripes gobble Godzillagram golden golf-ball printer gonk gonkulator gonzo Good Thing gorilla arm gorp GOSMACS Gosperism gotcha GPL GPV grault gray goo Great Renaming Great Runes Great Worm, the great-wall Green Book green bytes green card green lightning green machine Green\047s Theorem grep grind grind crank gritch grok gronk gronk out gronked grovel grunge gubbish guiltware gumby gun gunch gurfle guru guru meditation gweep h ha ha only serious hack hack attack hack mode hack on hack together hack up hack value hack-and-slay hacked off hacked up hacker hacker ethic, the hacking hacking run Hacking X for Y Hackintosh hackish hackishness hackitude hair hairy HAKMEM hakspek hammer hamster hand-hacking handle handshaking handwave hang Hanlon\047s Razor happily haque hard boot hardcoded hardwarily hardwired has the X nature hash bucket hash collision hat HCF heads down heartbeat heavy metal heavy wizardry heavyweight heisenbug Helen Keller mode hello, sailor! hello, wall! hello, world hex hexadecimal hexit HHOK HHOS hidden flag high bit high moby highly hing hirsute HLL hobbit hog holy wars home box hook hop hose hosed hot spot house wizard HP-SUX huff humma Humor, Hacker hung hungry puppy hungus hyperspace I didn\047t change anything! I see no X here. i14y i18n IBM IBM discount ICBM address ice ifdef out ill-behaved IMHO in the extreme incantation include include war indent style index infant mortality infinite infinite loop infinity initgame insanely great INTERCAL interesting Internet address interrupt interrupt list, the interrupts locked out IRC iron Iron Age iron box ironmonger ITS IWBNI IYFEG J. Random J. Random Hacker jack in jaggies JCL JEDR JFCL jiffy job security jock joe code JR[LN] JRST juggling eggs jump off into never-never land jupiter K K&R K-line kahuna kamikaze packet kangaroo code ken kgbvax kick kill file killer micro killer poke kilo- KIPS KISS Principle kit klone kludge kluge kluge around kluge up Knights of the Lambda Calculus Knuth kremvax kyrka lace card language lawyer languages of choice larval stage lase laser chicken laundromat LDB leaf site leak leaky heap legal legalese LER LERP let the smoke out letterbomb lexer lexiphage life Life is hard light pipe like kicking dead whales down the beach like nailing jelly to a tree line 666 line eater, the line noise line starve link farm link-dead lint lion food Lions Book LISP literature, the little-endian live data Live Free Or Die! livelock liveware lobotomy locked and loaded locked up logic bomb logical loop through loose bytes lord high fixer lose lose lose loser losing loss lossage lost in the noise lost in the underflow lots of MIPS but no I/O low-bandwidth LPT lunatic fringe lurker luser M macdink machinable machoflops Macintoy Macintrash macro macro- macrology macrotape maggotbox magic magic cookie magic number magic smoke mailing list main loop mainframe management mandelbug manged mangle mangler mango marbles marginal Marginal Hacks marginally marketroid Mars martian massage math-out Matrix maximum Maytag mode Mbogo, Dr. Fred meatware meeces meg mega- megapenny MEGO meltdown, network meme meme plague memetics memory leak memory smash menuitis mess-dos meta meta bit metasyntactic variable MFTL mickey mickey mouse program micro- microfloppies microfortnight microLenat microReid Microsloth Windows microtape middle-endian milliLampson minifloppies MIPS misbug misfeature Missed\047em-five missile address miswart moby mod mode mode bit modulo molly-guard Mongolian Hordes technique monkey up monkey, scratch monstrosity Moof Moore\047s Law moria MOTAS MOTOS MOTSS mouse ahead mouse around mouse belt mouse droppings mouse elbow mouso MS-DOS mu MUD muddie mudhead multician Multics multitask mumblage mumble munch munching munching squares munchkin mundane mung Murphy\047s Law music mutter \\begin N nadger nailed to the wall nailing jelly NAK nano nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanofortnight nanotechnology nastygram Nathan Hale nature na\213ve na\213ve user neat hack neats vs. scruffies neep-neep neophilia net.- net.god net.personality net.police netburp netdead nethack netiquette netlag netnews netrock netsplit netter network address network meltdown network, the New Jersey New Testament newbie newgroup wars newline news NeWS newsfroup newsgroup nick nickle night mode Nightmare File System NIL NMI no-op noddy NOMEX underwear Nominal Semidestructor non-optimal solution nonlinear nontrivial notwork NP- NSA line eater nuke number-crunching numbers NUXI problem nybble nyetwork Ob- Obfuscated C Contest obi-wan error Objectionable-C obscure octal forty off the trolley off-by-one error offline old fart Old Testament one-banana problem one-line fix one-liner wars ooblick op open open switch operating system optical diff Orange Book oriental food orphan orphaned i-node orthogonal OS OS/2 out-of-band overflow bit overflow pdl overrun overrun screw P.O.D. padded cell page in page out pain in the net paper-net param parent message parity errors Parkinson\047s Law of Data parm parse Pascal patch patch space path pathological payware PBD PC-ism PD pdl PDP-10 PDP-20 peek pencil and paper peon percent-S perf perfect programmer syndrome Perl pessimal pessimizing compiler peta- PETSCII phase phase of the moon phase-wrapping phreaking pico- pig, run like a pilot error ping Pink-Shirt Book PIP pistol pizza box pizza, ANSI standard plaid screen plain-ASCII plan file platinum-iridium playpen playte plingnet plokta plonk plugh plumbing PM pnambic pod point-and-drool interface poke poll polygon pusher POM pop POPJ posing post posting postmaster pound on power cycle power hit PPN precedence lossage prepend prestidigitization pretty pictures prettyprint pretzel key prime time printing discussion priority interrupt profile proglet program Programmer\047s Cheer programming programming fluid propeller head propeller key proprietary protocol provocative maintenance prowler pseudo pseudoprime pseudosuit psychedelicware psyton pubic directory puff punched card punt Purple Book push Q-line quad quadruple bucky quantifiers quantum bogodynamics quarter ques quick-and-dirty quote chapter and verse quotient quux qux QWERTY rain dance random random numbers randomness rape rare mode raster blaster raster burn rat belt rave rave on! ravs raw mode rc file RE read-only user README file real estate real hack real operating system real programmer Real Soon Now real time real user Real World reality check reaper rectangle slinger recursion recursive acronym Red Book regexp register dancing reincarnation, cycle of reinvent the wheel religious issues replicator reply reset restriction retcon RETI retrocomputing RFC RFE rib site rice box Right Thing RL roach robot robust rococo rogue room-temperature IQ root root mode rot13 rotary debugger RSN RTBM RTFAQ RTFB RTFM RTFS RTI RTM rude runes runic rusty iron rusty memory S/N ratio sacred saga sagan SAIL salescritter salsman salt mines salt substrate same-day service samurai sandbender sandbox sanity check Saturday-night special say scag science-fiction fandom scram switch scratch scratch monkey screw screwage scribble scrog scrool scrozzle SCSI search-and-destroy mode second-system effect secondary damage security through obscurity SED segfault seggie segment segmentation fault segv self-reference selvage semi semi-infinite senior bit server SEX sex changer shareware shelfware shell shell out shift left $or right$ logical shitogram short card shotgun debugging showstopper shriek Shub-Internet sidecar sig block sig quote sig virus signal-to-noise ratio silicon silicon foundry silly walk silo Silver Book since time T equals minus infinity sitename skrog skulker slap on the side slash sleep slim slop slopsucker slurp smart smart terminal smash case smash the stack smiley smoke test smoking clover SMOP smurf SNAFU principle snail snail-mail snap snarf snarf & barf snarf down snark sneakernet sniff snivitz SO social engineering social science number soft boot softcopy software bloat software rot softwarily softy some random X sorcerer\047s apprentice mode SOS source of all good bits space-cadet keyboard SPACEWAR spaghetti code spaghetti inheritance spam special-case speedometer spell spiffy spin spl splat spod sponge spooge spool stack stale pointer bug state steam-powered stiffy stir-fried random stomp on Stone Age stone knives and bearskins stoppage store stroke strudel stubroutine studlycaps stunning stupid-sort Stupids subshell sucking mud sufficiently small suit suitable win suitably small sun lounge sun-stools sunspots superprogrammer superuser support Suzie COBOL swab swap swap space swapped in swapped out swizzle sync syntactic sugar sys-frog sysadmin sysape sysop system system mangler systems jock SysVile T tail recursion talk mode talker system tall card tanked TANSTAAFL tar and feather taste tayste TCB tea, ISO standard cup of TechRef TECO tee Telerat TELNET ten-finger interface tense tenured graduate student tera- teraflop club terminak terminal brain death terminal illness terminal junkie terpri test TeX text thanks in advance the X that can be Y is not the true X theology theory thinko This can\047t happen This time, for sure! thrash thread three-finger salute thud thumb thunk tick tick-list features tickle a bug tiger team time sink time T times-or-divided-by tinycrud tip of the ice-cube tired iron tits on a keyboard TLA TMRC to a first approximation to a zeroth approximation toast toaster toeprint toggle tool toolsmith topic drift topic group TOPS-10 TOPS-20 toto tourist tourist information touristic toy toy language toy problem toy program trampoline trap trap door trash tree-killer trit trivial troglodyte troglodyte mode Trojan horse true-hacker tty tube tube time tunafish tune turbo nerd Turing tar-pit turist tweak tweeter TWENEX twiddle twilight zone twink two pi two-to-the-N twonkie UBD UN*X undefined external reference under the hood undocumented feature uninteresting UNIX UNIX brain damage UNIX conspiracy UNIX weenie unixism unroll unswizzle unwind the stack unwind-protect up upload upthread urchin USENET user user-friendly user-obsequious USG UNIX UTSL UUCPNET vadding vanilla vannevar vaporware var VAX VAXectomy VAXen vaxherd vaxism vaxocentrism vdiff veeblefester Venus flytrap verbage verbiage Version 7 vgrep vi videotex virgin virtual virtual Friday virtual reality virus visionary VMS voice voice-net voodoo programming VR Vulcan nerve pinch vulture capitalist wabbit WAITS waldo walk walk off the end of walking drives wall wall follower wall time wallpaper wango wank wannabee warm boot wart washing machine water MIPS wave a dead chicken weasel wedged wedgie wedgitude weeble weeds weenie Weenix well-behaved well-connected wetware whack whacker whales whalesong What\047s a spline? wheel wheel bit wheel wars White Book whizzy WIBNI widget wiggles WIMP environment win win big win win Winchester winged comments winkey winnage winner winnitude wired wirehead wish list within delta of within epsilon of wizard Wizard Book wizard mode wizardly womb box WOMBAT wonky woofer workaround working as designed worm wound around the axle wrap around write-only code write-only language write-only memory Wrong Thing wugga wugga WYSIAYG WYSIWYG X XEROX PARC XOFF xor xref XXX xyzzy YA- YABA YAUN Yellow Book Yet Another You are not expected to understand this You know you\047ve been hacking too long when... Your mileage may vary Yow! yoyo mode Yu-Shiang Whole Fish zap zapped zen zero zero-content zeroth zigamorph zip zipperhead zombie zorch Zork zorkmid ----Cut Line------Cut Line------Cut Line------Cut Line------Cut Line---- -- Jim Kunzman jim@tct.COM OS/2 is dead. Long live OS/2!