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- Bad Taste Cookies (DOS and OS/2 version 1)
- ------------------------------------------
-
- If you kinda like the small wise sayings which appears on your UNIX
- terminal when you log in, or when you type cookie at the prompt, and
- really enjoys it when you use the -o parameter, then this program is
- for you!
-
- This is a collection of _really_ offending jokes. One joke is
- displayed in a color of your selection each time the program is run,
- making it suitable to include as the last line in your login script or
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Is there any better start of a new working day than
- a really tasteless joke?
-
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
-
- OS/2 version 2.0 or better. Tested on version 2.1.
-
- DOS probably all versions. Tested on MS-DOS versions 3.3, 4.01,
- 5.0, 6.0 and 6.2 and PC-DOS versions 2.0, 3.0 and 6.1.
- (Hey, I run all these DOS versions on a single OS/2 computer!
- OS/2 _IS_ amazing...) If you want the joke displayed in color
- you must have added ANSI compatibility (ANSI.SYS).
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- Copy the file BTCOOKIE.EXE to a directory listed in your PATH. DOS
- users should use the file in the DOS subdirectory, and OS/2 users the
- file in the OS2 subdirectory.
-
- DOS: To make the program run each time you boot your machine (Pretty
- often during a DOS users day, huh?): Include BTCOOKIE as the last line
- in the file AUTOEXEC.BAT on your boot drive.
-
- OS/2: To make the program run each time you open an OS/2 session:
- If you are using JP Soft's excellent command processor replacement
- 4OS2, you could make a file 4START.CMD in your 4OS2 directory
- containing the line: BTCOOKIE.
- If you use the standard CMD.EXE delivered with the 2.x package, you
- have 2 possibilities:
- 1. Get 4OS2. It is definitely worth the money.
- 2. Open the settings book on the OS/2 session by right clicking on
- the icon. Select the Program page. Add /k btcookie.exe on the
- Parameters line. Close the book. That's it!
-
-
-
- VALID PARAMETERS: BTCookie [c] Where c is a color value between
- 1 and 15.
-
- The color values are mapped in this way (Standard DOS colors):
-
- Dark Gray 8
- Blue 1 Bright Blue 9
- Green 2 Bright Green 10
- Cyan 3 Bright Cyan 11
- Red 4 Bright Red 12
- Magenta 5 Bright Magenta 13
- Brown 6 Yellow 14
- Light Gray 7 White 15
-
- Your terminal must be capable of understanding ANSI escape sequences to
- be able to use this option. On OS/2 systems this is nothing to worry
- about, since all text sessions supports ANSI. But if you are one of the
- poor guys who still are running p(l)ain DOS, you must be shure that the
- driver ANSI.SYS is loaded somewhere in CONFIG.SYS.
-
-
-
- This is the final version of the program (I think). I have used it for some
- time, and I'm quite happy with it. But if you have any suggestion,
- maybe how to make the program more usable to others, come on, send me a
- mail!
- Especially welcome is a tip on how to implement a good random
- generator for huge integers!
-
- If you think it is usable as it is, please send me a mail. That will convince
- me that I did not write all this documentation for nobody ...
-
-
-
- The 214 jokes included in this program are selected from:
- TRULY TASTELESS JOKES by Blanche Knott
- published by Ballantine Books, New York.
- Copyright (c) 1982 by Blanche Knott.
- A big applause to her (him?).
-
-
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
- INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL I
- BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
- SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
- INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
- CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
- ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
- Ketil Kintel
- Computer Science, Rogaland University Centre, Norway
- EMAIL: kintel@gribb.hsr.no - kintel@hsr.no
- PGP 2.3 public key available on request.
-
-
-
- If anyone wonders what this PGP stuff is all about (and all the strange
- looking .ASC files lying around) I can tell you this:
-
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is Phil Zimmermann's excellent RSA
- public-key encryption freeware for MSDOS, OS/2,, UNIX, WIN-NT, MAC,
- AMIGA, among others, which protects E-mail and lets you communicate
- securely with people you've never met, with no secure channels needed
- for prior exchange of keys.
- It is well featured and fast! Has got excellent user documentation.
- PGP has sophisticated key management, an RSA/conventional hybrid
- encryption scheme, message digests for digital signatures, data
- compression before encryption, and good ergonomic design. Source
- code is free.