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                 Brief Description

    The Duniho and Duniho Life Pattern Indicator (DDLI) is a program
that asks you questions in order to determine your Life Pattern. The Life
Patterns correspond to the sixteen psychological types measured by the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and they are represented by the same
abbreviations. By using knowledge that Terence Duniho has added to the
study of Type, this program also checks itself by asking supplementary
questions about other preferences that correlate with a person's type.

                 Copyright

    The DDLI and this documentation are Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 by
Fergus Duniho. Most of its questions are drawn from and based on those in
two questionaires by Terence Duniho. These are his "Preference Patterns
Questionaire" and "What is Your Personality Pattern?" from his book
_Wholeness Lies Within: Sixteen Natural Paths Toward Sprituality_. "What is
Your Personality Preference" is Copyright (C) 1985, 1991 by Terence L.
Duniho. Fergus Duniho uses questions from these questionaires with the
permission of Terence Duniho.

                 Contents

    This archives contains:

    README.1ST - A file you should read before using the DDLI.

    DDLI.C - The main source code.

    FPDIO.C - A file containing the source code for some input/output
          functions I wrote.

    QST.C - A file containing the qst type and the functions that use
        it.

    STRDUP.C - A file containing the "strdup" command in case you don't
           have it.

    DDLI.DOC - This file, the documentation.

    DDLI.QST - The file of questions used by the DDLI.

    DDLI - An executable for Amigas.

                   Distribution

    The latest version of the DDLI may be freely distributed as long as
it is left unchanged, and it always distributed with its source code
(DDLI.C, QST.C, FPDIO.C, STRDUP.C), this documentation file, and DDLI.QST,
which contains the questions. It may be, but does not have to be,
distributed with any executables. If you want to distribute it with
commercial products, such as books on Type, you need the written permission
of the author.

    Whenever I release a new version, please stop distributing older
versions. Please remove older versions from software libraries, disk
collections, and electronic bulletin boards. This is especially important
when older versions had bugs.

                 Compiling

    You may have to compile DDLI.C to run the DDLI on your computer.
DDLI.C is a completely portable Standard ANSI/ISO C program. You should be
able to compile it and run it on any computer that has a Standard C
compiler. To compile it, first make sure that the source files are all in
the same directory. Then type "cc DDLI.C -o DDLI". You may have to change
"cc" to the name of the frontend for your compiler, such as "dcc", "bcc",
or "gcc".

    If the program can't compile or doesn't work, read the comments at
the beginning of DDLI.C and follow their instructions.

    If you use an IBM or compatible, you may have to add carriage
returns (ASCII 13) to the end of each line (unless somebody has already
done it for you). The Amiga, which I use, uses only the newline character
to end each line, but the IBM uses both a newline and a carriage return.

                DISCLAIMER

    I offer no guarantee that this program will accurately measure your
type. I am not a trained psychologist, and I have tested these questions on
only a few people. I have mainly used my knowledge of type to put them
together. Although most were written by Terence Duniho, whose life work is
psychological type, I wrote some of them, particularly the supplementary
questions. This program is experimental, and I hope to use the
computer-user community as my testing ground. If you already know your
type, I would greatly appreciate it if you would report on the accuracy of
this program.

    Also, if this program somehow messes up your computer or your data,
I, Fergus Duniho, am not to blame. You use this program at your own risk.

    Furthermore, I am not responsible for any use that anyone makes of
this program or its results. If, for example, someone chooses to
discriminate against you because of the type you scored as on the DDLI, you
should sue the person who discriminated against you, not me.

              The Life Pattern Model

    The Life Pattern model is based on Carl Gustav Jung's four
psychological functions. These are thinking, feeling, sensing, and
intuition. The former two are judging functions, and the latter two are
perceiving functions. The judging functions are those we use for making
decisions. The perceiving functions are those we use for gathering
information. According to Jung, the personality of each person is
characterized by the dominance of one of these functions over the others.
He also added that each person used his dominant function is either an
extraverted way or an introverted way. Someone who used his dominant
function in an extraverted way would rely on it when dealing with the
external environment, such as in public settings, with people who aren't
intimates, etc. Someone who used his dominant function in an introverted
way would rely on it when alone or with intimates. Thus, Jung's personality
theory had eight psychological types. These were Introverted Sensors,
Introverted Intuitors, Introverted Thinkers, Introverted Feelers,
Extraverted Sensors, Extraverted Intuitors, Extraverted Thinkers, and
Extraverted Feelers.

    Jung also held that each type had an auxiliary function, as well as
the dominant function. For the sake of balance, the auxiliary for a
psychologically healthy individual was a perceiving function if the
dominant was a judging function and a judging function if the dominant was
a perceiving function. Furthermore, a person would use the auxiliary in the
opposite way as the dominant function. Extraverts would rely on the
auxiliary for introverting, and introverts would rely on it for
extraverting.

    The introduction of the auxiliary split each of Jung's types into
two, effectively giving us Myers-Briggs' sixteen psychological types. For
example, Introverted Thinkers would be divided into Introverted Thinkers
with Intuition as an auxiliary and Introverted Thinkers with Sensing as an
auxiliary. The Myers-Briggs types are based on four sets of opposing
preferences. These are extraversion vs. introversion (E vs. I), intuition
vs. sensing (N vs. S), thinking vs. feeling (T vs. F), and perceiving vs.
judging (P vs. J). The preference for extraversion or introversion
indicates the way in which a person uses his dominant function. The
preference for perceiving or judging indicates which function (the dominant
or the auxiliary) the person relies on for extraverting. As I already
indicated, the dominant and the auxiliary together include both a
perceiving function and a judging function. P's rely on the perceiving
function for extraverting, and J's rely on the judging function for
extraverting. The preference for thinking or feeling indicates the
preferred judging function, and the preference for sensing or intuition
indicates the preferred perceiving function.

    Using this information, we can determine the Jungian type that
corresponds to each Myers-Briggs type. Take, for instance, my type: INTP.
The "I" indicates that I use my dominant function for introverting. The "P"
indicates that I rely on my preferred perceiving function for extraverting.
Since I am an introvert, this means that I rely on my preferred judging
function for introverting. In other words, my dominant function is my
preferred judging function. Since this is thinking, that means I am an
Introverted Thinker. My auxiliary is my preferred perceiving function, and
that is intuition. Therefore, an INTP is an Introverted Thinker with
Intuition as an auxiliary. Each Myers-Briggs type can be translated into
its corresponding Jungian type in like manner. Here is a table of what each
type corresponds to:

    INTP:    Introverted Thinker with auxiliary Intuition
    ISTP:    Introverted Thinker with auxiliary Sensing
    INFP:    Introverted Feeler with auxiliary Intuition
    ISFP:    Introverted Feeler with auxiliary Sensing
    INTJ:    Introverted Intuitor with auxiliary Thinking
    INFJ:    Introverted Intuitor with auxiliary Feeling
    ISTJ:    Introverted Sensor with auxiliary Thinking
    ISFJ:    Introverted Sensor with auxiliary Feeling
    ENTJ:    Extraverted Thinker with auxiliary Intuition
    ESTJ:    Extraverted Thinker with auxiliary Sensing
    ENFJ:    Extraverted Feeler with auxiliary Intuition
    ESFJ:    Extraverted Feeler with auxiliary Sensing
    ENTP:    Extraverted Intuitor with auxiliary Thinking
    ENFP:    Extraverted Intuitor with auxiliary Feeling
    ESTP:    Extraverted Sensor with auxiliary Thinking
    ESFP:    Extraverted Sensor with auxiliary Feeling

    The Myers-Briggs model was extended into the Life Patterns model by
Terence Duniho. According to Terence Duniho, each type also has a tertiary
function and an inferior function. These balance the dominant and auxiliary
functions. The tertiary function is used in the same way as the dominant
function (extraverted or introverted), but it is not relied on to the same
extent. Also, the tertiary function is always the opposite of the auxiliary
function. If the auxiliary is a judging function, the tertiary is the other
judging function; if the auxiliary is a perceiving function, the tertiary
is the other perceiving function. The inferior function is always the
opposite of the dominant function, and it is used in the same way as the
auxiliary. Therefore, the introduction of the tertiary and inferior
functions do not extend the number of psychological types. There are still
sixteen.

    The advantage of the Life Pattern model is that it gives us more
tools for understanding each type. Instead of telling us how each type uses
two of Jung's functions, it tells us how each type uses all four of Jung's
functions. In effect, it gives us a blueprint for understanding the core
personality of each type. This blueprint describes the preferential
hierarchy among Jung's four functions for each type, and it describes the
way in which each type uses each of the four functions.

    First, there are eight different hierarchies among the sixteen
types. Using a form of abbreviation in which the leftmost letter represents
the dominant function, these are TNSF for INTPs and ENTJs, TSNF for ISTPs
and ESTJs, FNST for INFPs and ENFJs, FSNT for ISFPs and ESFJs, NTFS for
INTJs and ENTPs, NFTS for INFJs and ENFPs, STFN for ISTJs and ESTPs, and
SFTN for ISFJs and ESFPs.

    Second, the Life Pattern model characterizes each type by how it
uses the four functions. Extraverts use the dominant and tertiary functions
for extraverting, and the other two functions for introverting. Introverts
use the dominant and tertiary functions for introverting, and the other two
for extraverting. Given the eight possible hierarchies of preference, this
gives us four different ways in which the 16 types use the four functions.
I call these four different ways directional patterns, for they indicate
the direction (outward or inward) in which each function is used. Using a
form of abbreviation in which "I" and "E" indicate the direction in which a
function is used, these are IT-EF-IN-ES for ISTPs, ENFJs, INFJs, and ESTPs,
ET-IF-IN-ES for INTJs, ESFPs, ISFPs, and ENTJs, IT-EF-EN-IS for INTPs,
ESFJs, ISFJs, and ENTPs, and ET-IF-EN-IS for INFPs, ESTJs, ISTJs, and
ENFPs.

    One interesting consequence of this model is that it gives us three
different ways of understanding how someone's type can be the opposite of
someone else's. I call these hierarchical, directional, and diametrical
opposites. Hierarchical opposites have opposite hierarchies but the same
diretional patterns. Hierarchical opposites never have any letters in
common in their abbreviations. Directional opposites have the same
directional patterns but opposite hierarchies. These always have the inner
two letters the same and the outer two different. And diametrical opposites
have both opposite hierarchies and opposite directional patterns. These
have the outer two letters the same and the inner two different.

    Here is a chart that describes the directional hierarchy of each
type. The functions appear left to right from dominant to inferior. "I"
indicates that the function is used for introverting, and "E" indicates
that the function is used for extraverting.

    INTP:    IT-EN-IS-EF
    ISTP:    IT-ES-IN-EF
    INFP:    IF-EN-IS-ET
    ISFP:    IF-ES-IN-ET
    INTJ:    IN-ET-IF-ES
    INFJ:    IN-EF-IT-ES
    ISTJ:    IS-ET-IF-EN
    ISFJ:    IS-EF-IT-EN
    ENTJ:    ET-IN-ES-IF
    ESTJ:    ET-IS-EN-IF
    ENFJ:    EF-IN-ES-IT
    ESFJ:    EF-IS-EN-IT
    ENTP:    EN-IT-EF-IS
    ENFP:    EN-IF-ET-IS
    ESTP:    ES-IT-EF-IN
    ESFP:    ES-IF-ET-IN

    For further information about Type, the Life Pattern model, and the
sixteen different Life Patterns, consult Terence Duniho's book _Wholeness
Lies Within_, or some other book about Type. _Wholeness Lies Within_ can be
ordered from Type & Temperment, Inc., PO Box 200, Gladwyne, PA 19032 for
$14.95 + $2.09 p/h. Terence Duniho also recommends _LifeTypes_ by Sandra
Hirsh & Jean Kummerow (Warner Books) and _Gifts Differing_ by Isabel Briggs
Myers (Consulting Psychologists Press).

                How to Use the DDLI

    The DDLI will first ask you how many columns you have on your
screen. This is so it can wordwrap the text to fit on any screen size. It
will then ask for your name. It expects that your name will be less than 80
characters long. Then it will ask for an integer to use as the seed value
for the random number generator. This is so it can randomize the order of
all the questions, as well as the order of the answers to each question.

    The DDLI will then ask you a series of questions. You can answer a
question by typing the letter that precedes the answer you choose: an A or
a B. You should follow your answer with a carriage return. If you want to
go back to a question you previously answered and change your answer, you
can go back to the previous question by typing "Prev" or just "P" followed
by a carriage return. Keep doing this until you get back to the question
you want to answer differently. After you have changed your answer, the
DDLI will resume with the next question that you haven't answered. If you
want to postpone answering a question until later, type "Skip" or just "S"
followed by a carriage return. You will see this question again after you
have gone through the remaining questions. If you want to quit the DDLI,
type "Quit" or just "Q" followed by a carriage return. Whatever you type in
while answering the questions, the DDLI will read only the first character.
If it isn't an "A," "B," "P," "Q," or "S," the DDLI will tell you what sort
of input it expects from you.

    When you answer each question, there are some things you should
bear in mind.

       1.   Do not base your answer simply on the most recent event in
        your life that fits the question. Rather, base your answer on
        your general pattern of behavior, not your behavior on one
        occasion.

       2.   Do not answer the questions according to how you want to be
        when that differs from how you actually are. Base your answers
        on how you actually are.

       3.   Do not stretch your imagination by trying to imagine situations
        that are favorable for each answer. Rather, base your answers
        on how you are in the situations you normally find yourself in.

    Here are some other tips on answering the questions. If one answer
immediately seems more you than the other, go with that answer. For
questions where this doesn't work, ask yourself which answer would take
less energy or be more natural.

    Finally, remember that this is not a test. Nobody has an answer key
with the right answers in it. The right answers depend upon who you are.
This program does not measure degrees of normality and abnormality. It
merely measures differences that may exist between normal, psychologically
healthy individuals.

           Understanding the Results of the DDLI

    After you have answered all the questions, the DDLI will display
the results. Here is a sample display that I created by choosing 128 as a
seed value and choosing "B" all the way through. I chose "No one" as the
name.

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No one's scores on the main set of questions:


Extraversion (E):  7    10 :(I) Introversion
Sensing      (S):  9     8 :(N) iNtuition
Thinking     (T): 12     7 :(F) Feeling
Judging      (J):  8     9 :(P) Preceiving
No one scored as an ISTP.

Assuming that you are an ISTP,
Your DOMINANT function is Introverted Thinking.
Your AUXILIARY function is Extraverted Sensing.
Your TERTIARY function is Introverted Intuition.
Your INFERIOR function is Extraverted Feeling.

No one's scores on the supplementary questions:

Extraverted Thinking / Introverted Feeling   : 5
Extraverted Feeling / Introverted Thinking   : 4

Extraverted Intuition / Introverted Sensing  : 4
Extraverted Sensing / Introverted Intuition  : 5

Rationality (Dominant Judging Function)      : 3
A-rationality (Dominant Perceiving Function) : 2

According to these scores, No one could be a dominant judger who extraverts
Thinking and Sensing, and who introverts Feeling and Intuition. Thus, No
one might be an ENTJ or an ISFP. These results conflict with the evaluation
of No one as an ISTP.

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    This output displays the results to two different sets of
questions. The first set of questions measures for extraversion vs.
introversion, sensing vs. intuition, thinking vs. feeling, and judging vs.
perceiving. These are the same four sets of preferences that the MBTI
measures for. It first presents your scores on these questions and tells
you what type they indicate. It then presents the directional hierarchy of
functions for that type.

    The second set of questions measures for preferences that the MBTI
does not measure for. These are extraverted thinking and introverted
feeling vs. extraverted feeling and introverted thinking, extraverted
intuition and introverted sensing vs. extraverted sensing and introverted
intuition, and rationality vs. a-rationality. The pairs of opposites are

    Extraverted Thinking vs. Introverted Thinking
    Extraverted Feeling vs. Introverted Feeling
    Extraverted Sensing vs. Introverted Sensing
    Extraverted Intuition vs. Introverted Intuition
    Rationality vs. A-Rationality.

    The DDLI measures for the first two together because the types who
extravert feeling and introvert thinking are the same, and the types who
introvert feeling and extravert thinking are the same. And it measures for
the second pair together because the types who extravert sensing and
introvert intuition are the same, and the types who extravert intuition and
introvert sensing are the same.

    The DDLI presents the scores on these questions and then indicates
which types these scores suggest. These two types are always 4-letter
opposites, which I referred to previously as hierarchical opposites. This
is because these questions measure for directional preferences and for only
one hierarchical preference. Hierarchical opposites, as you may recall,
have the same directional patterns but opposite hierarchies. And any two
types with opposite hierarchies have the same the same kind of dominant
function: a judging function (thinking or feeling) or a perceiving function
(sensing or intuition).

    Finally, the DDLI compares the type suggested by your answers to
the first set of questions with the types suggested by your answers to the
second set of questions. If it finds a match, it tells you that your
results on the supplementary questions corroborate your results on the main
set of questions. It otherwise tells you that your results on these two
sets of questions conflict.

    If there is a conflict between your scores, there is no rule for
determining which one is right. You should get ahold of a description of
the types and read the descriptions for each of the types that the program
suggests you are. And even if your scores don't conflict, you should read
the descriptions of the type you scored as to really make sure you are that
type. There is no guarantee that this program will accurately measure your
type. I think that in most cases it will, but in your case it might not. If
it doesn't, I hope you will offer your suggestions for making this program
more accurate in the future.

                  History

    V 1.00 (12/31/1992) - The first version

                  Bug: It displays the functional hierarchy of
                  an ENTP no matter what type you scored as.

    V 1.01 (01/03/1993) - Bug fix.
                  A few changes and additions to QST.

                  Bug: When it displays the functional
                  hierarchy of the type you scored as, it
                  assumes that you scored as an extravert, even
                  in you scored as an introvert.

    V 1.10 (01/07/1993) - Bug Fix plus Feature Update.
                  Can now send output to printer or file.
                  Displays scores to supplementary questions.
                  One grammatical correction in QST.
                  One question in QST replaced with another.

    V 2.00 (01/31/1993) - Because I switched from the crippled freeware
                  version of DICE to GNU C, I added some
                  features that I couldn't previously put into
                  the DDLI. Here are the new features:

                * Randomizes question order and answer order.
                * Allows you to skip questions until later.
                * Allows you to go back to questions and change
                  your answers.
                * Displays output in a more understandable
                  format.
                * QST renamed as "DDLI.QST"
                * Some major changes in DDLI.QST.
                * DDLI.QST now groups together questions that
                  measure for the same preference.
                * Reads "DDLI.QST" all at once and closes it
                  before asking any questions. This means you
                  no longer have to keep the disk with the
                  questions on it in your disk drive when you
                  are running the DDLI.
                * Saves a file that contains a record of all
                  your answers. Sending me this file will help
                  me make the DDLI more reliable.

    V 2.01 (02/26/1993) - It turns out that I could incorporate the
                  additions to V2.00 with DICE. This version
                  has all the same features, and I have
                  compiled the Amiga version with DICE so that
                  it will not require ixemul.library to run.
                  (If you have GNU C, you might want to
                  recompile it, since the GNU C version takes
                  up less space.)

                  It's essentially the inside, rather than the
                  outside, of the program that has changed with
                  this version. The main difference is that
                  this version stores the questions in a linked
                  list instead of in an array. This is to
                  prevent memory fragmentation errors that
                  occur from asking for a large chunk of
                  memory.

    V 2.02 (04/04/1993)   The DDLI now puts a linefeed after the
                  version string when it creates a record of
                  your answers.

                  ".raw" files renamed ".dar".

                  Added Readme.1st.

                  The wrapwrite function in fpdio.c now takes
                  multiple arguments.

                  Acknowledgements

    The individual acknowledgements are listed in historical order:

    My INFJ father, Terence Duniho, for providing the theoretical
structure behind this program plus most of the questions.

    INTP Gerald Erichsen for compiling the IBM version, for a bug
report on version 1.00, and for suggesting the printing feature.

    INFP Kirk Worcester for a bug report on version 1.01.

    ENFP Jayne Thrall for letting me test a bunch of questions on her.

    And those who have given me feedback on GEnie.

                 How You Can Help

    The DDLI is in constant development, and your feedback can make it
more reliable. The simplest thing you can do is tell me your type and send
me a copy of the file that the DDLI creates when it is finished. The name
for this file will contain the first 8 characters of your name plus ".dar",
which stands for "DDLI Answer Record". This file contains a record of your
answers. I intend to write a database program that will interpret these
files and give me statistical data on them so that I can determine which
questions work best. You can send it by email. My email addresses are
below.

    If you want to do more, you can tell me your type along with why
you answered the questions as you did. It will be particularly helpful if
you tell me why you chose answers that conflicted with your type.

                 About the Author

    I am Fergus Duniho, the 25 year old INTP son of INFJ Terence
Duniho, the Executive Director of the newly formed Life Patterns Institute.
Except for this filial relationship, I have no associations with the Life
Patterns Institute, and I am completely unassociated with any other
organization devoted to the study of psychological type. Although I am
knowledgeable on the subject of psychological type, I'm probably not an
expert on the subject.

    I am currently a Ph.D. candidate and a T.A. in the philosophy
department at the University of Rochester. I plan to teach philosophy to
undergraduates after I get my degree. My calling is to be a teacher. I work
as a computer programmer during the summer.

    Besides this program, I have written other freeware for the Amiga.
These include DMD, a set of macros for Matt Dillon's text editor, DME, and
Silly Syllogisms, a syllogisms tutor in Amiga Basic.

    On GEnie, you can find me in the "Myers-Briggs / personality types"
TOPic in the Public Forum (CAT 18 TOP 11), in "Developing the DDLI" in the
Public Forum (CAT 18 TOP 15), and in "Sixteen Paths to Wholeness" in the
Family BB (CAT 15 TOP 13). You may find me in some others, but I want to
devote my time on GEnie to these three. I call GEnie most often during
breaks and the summer and less often during the school year.

    You can reach me by email or by post. You can reach me through the
Internet at [e-mail]. On GEnie, I am F.DUNIHO. You can
also send me email on the FileWorks BBS in Rochester, NY. You can reach me
through regular mail at

    Fergus Duniho
    1170 Genesee St. B3 A7
    Rochester, NY 14611

    If you want me to reply back to you, it is best to use email, since
I don't keep a large supply of stamps.