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- The Guru 1.0 User Manual
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- May 6, 1990
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- Preface
- =======
-
- This program is freeware, this means that you can copy it freely as long
- as you don't ask any more money for it than a nominal fee for copying. If
- you want to distribute this program you should keep this document with it.
- If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if you find
- any bugs, please let me know.
-
- Write to the following address:
-
- Nico François
- Corbielaan 13
- 3060 Bertem BELGIUM
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-
- Contents
- ========
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- 1. Introduction
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- 2. The Guru
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- 3. GuruSettings
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- 4. GuruEd
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- 1. Introduction
- ===============
-
- Aha, another useful utility by Nico I hear you cry. Naaaaah ! I really
- felt like programming something completely and utterly useless :^) So I
- present : The Guru. A program to bring the Guru back into Kickstart 2.0, for
- those who will miss it :-)
- To see what the program does you should stop reading now (well not this
- very instant :^) and run the 'TheGuru' program (just double-click its icon).
- Nothing will happen. Don't worry, this is normal, stop reading now and resume
- when you know what the program does.
-
- ...
-
- The package consists of three different programs, the guru itself, a
- settings program and a phrase editor. The guru program is the main program
- and the two other programs require it to run to function properly. Once it is
- started The Guru will wait for a set period of time before appearing and
- speaking a humorous (?) phrase. If you're into jokes so corny they become
- funny you'll love this program, if not you'll have to find some other way to
- have a good laugh with your Amiga (maybe by running A-Max :-D ). The settings
- program can then be run to e.g. change all the different speech settings and
- the time delay. Finally, the GuruEd program is used to add/remove phrases
- from The Guru's phraselists, so if you don't like what The Guru has to say you
- have the possibility to add your own drivel.
-
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- 2. The Guru
- ===========
-
- This is the main program, double-click its icon to start it, or enter
- 'Run TheGuru' in the Shell. If you really like this program you can even put
- this command in your startup-sequence (before the EndCLI of course).
- To quit The Guru run the program again or send it a break. Sending a
- break can be done by pressing CTRL-C if you forgot to run The Guru (so you
- couldn't enter any more commands) or by entering 'Break n' in the Shell, where
- n is the CLI process number of The Guru (use Status to find this out). You
- can also use the GuruSettings program to quit The Guru, but more about this
- later.
- When the program is started it will try to read two files :
- 'TheGuru.settings' and 'TheGuru.phrases'. It will first try to read these in
- the current directory, if it can't find them then the S: directory will be
- searched. The 'TheGuru.phrases' file is a must, when 'TheGuru.settings' isn't
- found the default settings are used (normal speech settings and a 120s delay).
-
- NOTE: - The Guru requires the translator.library and the narrator.device. It
- works fine if you boot from a standard WorkBench 1.2 (or higher) disk.
-
-
- 3. GuruSettings
- ===============
-
- The GuruSettings program is mainly used to change to speech settings of
- The Guru. You can change the volume (0 - 64), the rate (40 - 400 words/min.),
- the pitch (65 - 320), the sex (male or female) and the mode (human speech or
- robotic speech). You can also change the time delay between two apparitions
- of The Guru (1 - 799 sec.) and you can quit The Guru.
- I suppose most gadgets explain themselves. Use the 'Load' gadget to load
- the settings from disk and the 'Save' gadget to save them to disk so The Guru
- will use these settings the next time you run it. The 'Turn Off'/'Turn On'
- gadget is used to switch The Guru temporarily off and to turn him back on, you
- will get to hear what The Guru thinks about this :^D
-
-
- 4. GuruEd
- =========
-
- This is the phrase editor. With this program you can display all phrases
- in the three available lists, speak them, change them, delete them and add new
- ones.
- The three possible lists are : 'Timer' the phrases The Guru uses when he
- appears, 'Turn On' the praise you get to hear when you turn The Guru back on
- and 'Turn Off' the abuse you get to swallow when you turn him off.
- Again, most gadgets explain themselves. The 'Clear' gadget clears the
- string gadgets and moves you to the end of the list, the 'Change' gadget makes
- the changes you made in the string gadget permanent (if you don't use this the
- changes will be lost when you move to another phrase). The speak gadget will
- only work when The Guru is not already busy speaking.
- The 'Add Phrase' gadget will probably not be used very often, because
- there is a very quick and easy way to enter new phrases without using the
- mouse. First use the 'Clear' gadget to clear the string gadget and to move to
- the end of the list. The string gadget will be automatically activated, so
- enter your phrase. When you then press ENTER The Guru will speak the phrase
- and a requester will appear asking you if you want to add this phrase, you can
- answer this requester by typing a 'Y' or a 'N' on the keyboard. So of you are
- not pleased with the phrase yet and you want to edit it some more press 'N',
- if you want to add it press 'Y', the phrase will be added and you will get an
- empty string gadget to enter another phrase.
- The Guru will always speak the phrase when you press ENTER in the string
- gadget (if it is not busy speaking). This is very useful when you are editing
- phrases, once you are pleased with it you can use the 'Change' gadget to make
- the changes permanent.
-
- NOTE: - Watch out with the 'Add Phrase' gadget so you don't add a phrase in
- the list when it is already there, you should use the 'Change' gadget
- after editing a phrase.
- - Don't think I can't write English too quickly when you read the
- phrases in the supplied lists :^) It is sometimes necessary to play
- around with the spelling of a word because the 'trenslaiter' is not
- perfect.
-
-
- I hope you enjoy this program !
-
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- PROGRAM HISTORY:
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- *****************************************************************************
- VERSION 1.0
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- First release.
-
- *****************************************************************************
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- The Guru 1.0 written by Nico François (Yes, Nico is my first name :-),
- thanks to 'Talking Moose' on the Mac for the inspiration,
- extra special thanks to Peter Verhoye for drawing the guru.
-
- (c) 1990 Nico François
-