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Article #62Re: Random Quotes
From: Tim Haynes
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:43
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Mark A Miles <maxm@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes: > I would like to define an output filter in PINE that passed the e-mail > about to be sent to some sort of shell script that would then tag on a > randomly selected quote on to the end of the mail (hence a random quote > in a signature). Does anybody have an idea of how I would do this? Best bet would be to have a cron job that rotated your .sig, maybe with a stub at the top plus quote underneath, or perl script that merged the two... if you can cope with that rotating at a fixed frequency regardless of your mailing rate, that might suffice. Or you can set up a named-pipe called ~/.sig with a random-quote-generator pushing junk in one end, so when pine reads it out t'other end, it gets a new quote every time. (Make the random-quote-generator run out of your shell startup script so interactive logins make it check for existence of a listener on the fifo and establish one if need be.) > E-mailed responses would be very much appreciated. If you *must*... ~Tim -- It's all over the front page |piglet@glutinous.custard.org You give me road rage |http://piglet.is.dreaming.org Racing through the best days |
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From: Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org>
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Subject: Re: Random Quotes
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