Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:41:37 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> Subject: Re: improvement idea of man page of strfile Message-ID: <400091.32582.qm@web56801.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4909C8E7.60904@realss.com>
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--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote:
> From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>
> Subject: improvement idea of man page of strfile
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:47 AM
> Original text:
>
> OTHER USES
>
> What can you do with this besides printing sarcastic
> and obscene mes-
> sages to the screens of lusers at login or logout?
>
> There are some other possibilities.
>
> 1 Include strfile.h into a news reading/posting
> program, to gener-
> ate random signatures. Tin(1) does something
> similar, in a much
> more complex manner.
>
> 2 Include it in a game. While strfile
> doesn't support 'fields' or
> 'records', there's no reason that
> the text strings can't be con-
> sistent: first line, a die roll; second line,
> a score; third and
> subsequent lines, a text message.
>
> 3 Use it to store your address book. Hell,
> some of the guys I
> know would be as well off using it to decide
> who to call on Fri-
> day nights (and for some, it wouldn't
> matter whether there were
> phone numbers in it or not).
>
> 4 Use it in 'lottery' situations. If
> you're an ISP, write a
> script to store login names and GECOS from
> /etc/passwd in str-
> file format, write another to send
> 'congratulations, you've won'
> to the lucky login selected. The prize might
> be a month's free
> service, or if you're AOL, a month free
> on a real service
> provider.
Erm, I don't see this text in strfile(8) on RELENG_7 which is reasonably recent. Where did you get your man page from?
- mdh
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