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Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 22:31:13 +0000
From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@spacehog.structured.net>
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Paul T. Root wrote:
> 
> In a previous message, Justin Ashworth said:
> > Is it possible to create an executable signature? I'd like to tag a quip
> > from /usr/games/fortune onto my signature after my name. I've tried
> > writing a .signature with a shebang (#!) line in PERL and sh to no
> > avail. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> I do that. Well, not exactly. What you want is a named pipe.
> They're pretty easy to use. You'll have a daemon running in
> the background, writting to the pipe (.signature) and your
> mail program reads from it as normal.

I've never written a daemon before. Can you recommend any good online
sources for this type of programming or just give me some source code to
work from?

BTW, I'm using a cron job right now that changes my sig hourly.

Thanks....

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