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- !Sig - 1.8
- Random Signatures for Marcel
- A small PD program for use with !Marcel
- Written by Brett Laniosh brett@g4nzk.demon.co.uk
- Adapted by Stuart Bruce stuart@atomiser.demon.co.uk
- Additional programming by Andrew Berry andrew@aberry.demon.co.uk
- Additional additional programming by Robin Watts
-
- This program gives random signatures in !Marcel. There's no limit to the
- number of signatures allowed and once easily installed the process is
- completely automatically.
-
- It's a simple program but it works!
-
- Installation ============
- * Open the relevant user's copy of !MarcelDir by double clicking on it.
- * Create a backup directory inside !MarcelDir.Files if you want.
- * Rename your old signature file /signature to /sig
- * Copy the following to !MarcelDir.Files:
- !Sig
- /signature (this is an obey file, unlike the original text file)
- * Double click on !Sig and check that the file /sigfile has been created
- as you require.
-
- Operation ==============
- Every time a new mail is edited, one of the signatures will be chosen.
-
- The signatures to be chosen from are stored in one file - "sigmain" -
- and each signature is separated by signature delimiters (two dashes, a
- space and a line return, used by most mailers to denote the beginning of
- the signature).
-
- The 'fixed' part of the signature is now stored in a separate file-
- "/sigmain".
-
- To add / edit / remove signatures, simply edit the files "/sigmain" and
- "sigmain"- to add a new signature to the pot, simply append it to the
- end, and remember to include a signature delimiter in it.
-
- History of this version =======================
- 1.0 Released into Acorn newsgroups (16.2.96) 1.1 Released from Ant ftp
- site. This version generates sig files each time unlike the earlier
- version which relied on an alteration to !Marcels !Run file.
- (22.2.96)
- 1.2 Now word wraps long taglines. Now reads all Taglines including
- the first. Removes old sigfiles which were building up in !Scrap.
- (25.2.96)
- 1.232323
- Stuart Bruce finds the program and decides to massacre it for his
- own foul deeds. The program becomes a random sig-file generator,
- rather than just a tagline generator. (7.12.96)
- 1.42
- Waking up the next morning, he corrects some of the mistakes, and
- makes the signatures be separated by signature delimiters (the
- obvious choice) rather than TABs (the stupid man's unthinking
- crumpet's choice). (8.12.96)
- File is renamed !Sig to avoid confusion with !Tag which is still
- very useful in its own right.
- 1.7
- After a long time of forgetting to update the !Help file, the program
- is released into the public domain, blah blah, etc. Oh yes, it also
- undergoes a complete rewrite in Assembler by Andrew Berry.
- 1.8
- A month or so later, just when it seems that all has been forgotten
- and the millions will not be made, Robin Watts of Warm Silence Software
- pops along and happens to mention that he's done a few alterations to
- the program, including optimisation and the standard bit. OK.
-
- If you have any comments please e-mail stuart@atomiser.demon.co.uk. Thanks.
-