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CookieST
A Fortune cookie program
for the Atari ST, STe & TT computers
(c) 1992 by Matija Grabnar
Struck by the absence of a really good cookie program for the Ataris, I
decided to write my own and make it postcardware.
If you use this cookie program regularly, please send a postcard to:
Matija Grabnar
Kristanova 2
61000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
The use of the program is simple.
1. Copy the file cookiest.prg to your AUTO folder.
2. Copy the cookie file you wish to use to wherever it will cause the
least troubles.
3. Run index.prg.
4. A file selector will appear. Use it to find the cookiest.prg.
5. You can now set your preferances and indicate the location of the
data file.
6. Press the save button to save the chosen options into the program.
Available options are:
Display countdown : Cookiest normaly displays the countdown which will
tell you how many seconds you have left until the program terminates. If
you don't like that, you can turn it off here.
Once per day : Some people don't want to see more than one fortune per
day. If you select this option, CookieST will only display a fortune the
FIRST time you run it on any given day. Note that your boot disk must
*NOT* be write protected for this to work.
Wait for ... seconds : After the program terminates, the booting
process usually deletes the text. Depending on how fast a reader you are,
you can set the display time for the fortune in seconds.
Add ... seconds per line: Some fortunes are long and some are short.
Use this setting to prolong the display of the fortune depending on the
number of lines displayed.
Please note that you will not be able to reconfigure the program if
you've used any of the compressor programs to compress the executable.
I have included two cookie files, COOKIE.DAT and QUOTE.DAT. If you are
short of space on your boot disk, you will probably want to use
COOKIE.DAT, but of course QUOTE.DAT is much more fun.
Error messages appear as fortunes. The fortune
If a file is not found, it can not be opened.
- Confucious
means that the file you have chosen for your fortune file is no longer
where it was supposed to be. Run INDEX.PRG and find the data file again.
The fortune:
Changing a file without reindexing is a sign of sloth.
- Confucious
means that you have made a change in your fortune file and the index file
may no longer be valid. Run INDEX.PRG and choose the data file again. It
will be automatically reindexed.
If you look at the fortune file format, you will see that it is very
simple, so you can create your own fortune files. However, if you send $10
(10 DEM for Europeans) and a blank formatted floppy, I will return the
floppy with a 543873 byte long cookie file and the latest release of the
CookieST package.
If you have a quotations file you would like to use, but you don't know
how to reformat it, I will be happy to do it for you, as long as the
format is not *too* brain-damaged. Just put the file on the floppy and
follow the above procedure.
Matija Grabnar
Internet:Matija.Grabnar@ijs.ac.mail.yu (This will probably change soon)
BIX: matija