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- From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga
- Subject: SigTune v1.0
- Summary: Useful utility for Amiga UUCP
- Keywords: What, a PROGRAM here instead of discussion? Odd.
- Message-ID: <1941@nyx.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Aug 90 08:24:24 GMT
- Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
- Followup-To: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu
- Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
- Lines: 384
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- SigTune is a useful little utility which combines the concept of the
- SIGnature and the program forTUNE into one. It allows you to insert
- a randomly-selected quote or other phrase into your .signature for
- each post. A simple little program, but I thought it was a good idea.
-
- The only real use for it I can think of is with Amiga UUCP, however
- I've approached Matt Dillon about distributing it with the package and
- he was not interested. SO, since my UUCP setup has been down for
- about two months from some mysterious bug I can't find, I'm posting it
- here in hopes that SOMEONE will get some use out of it! It was written
- mostly as an exercise to get me used to C again after not using it for
- a while, and I KNOW there are better ways to do what I've done but I
- did some of the things the hard way on purpose. V2.0 will be done
- "better" - faster, and smaller, for a start, but I wanted to create a
- little extra work for myself for the practice. It is clean and bug-free,
- so far as I know, and source is included along with some examples and a
- "man" page just for kicks. I compiled with Lattice/SAS C v5.05.
-
- I've released it into the public domain, because it's really very
- simple to implement. I would appreciate comments, or at least a
- note saying that you find it useful so I won't think I've wasted my
- time (when I was writing it, my UUCP setup was running, see...). Also,
- I am hoping that by putting a program here, the DISCUSSION thread will
- stop! If I can't think of anything else to write (I'm learning the
- innards of the Amiga quite nicely, but can't think of anything to DO!!)
- I'll take SigTune even farther than 2.0 with maybe a built-in editor
- to add quotes, and perhaps a little Tetris game that runs in a WB window
- just to pass the time...
-
- Below is the uuencoded ZOO archive of SigTune v1.0 - enjoy. There's
- nothing at the bottom so you can just clip this crud off here at the
- top. Distribute it around, tell your friends.
-
- . <<<<Infinite K>>>>
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