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From: jtdoran@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jamie T Doran)
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Subject: "random" sigs, I got suggestion
Date: 20 Dec 1994 04:55:56 GMT
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	You might try to make your account cycle through a few sigs. This
can be done very simply, without any real knowledge of perl or any other
programming language. If you have a unix account, try putting these few
lines in your .login file:

rm -f ~/.signature
cp ~/sigs/.sig1 ~/.signature
mv ~/sigs/.sig1 ~/sigs/.sigH
mv ~/sigs/.sig2 ~/sigs/.sig1
mv ~/sigs/.sig3 ~/sigs/.sig2
mv ~/sigs/.sig4 ~/sigs/.sig3
mv ~/sigs/.sig5 ~/sigs/.sig4
mv ~/sigs/.sigH ~/sigs/.sig5

Of course, if you have more than 5 sigs, just add more lines to this,
repeating the pattern of changing names of .sig# files to 1 step higher on
the list. The principle is simple. The first line removes the current
signature in your home directory (replace ~/.signature with whatever you
use to identify your .signature file). The second line copies the .sig1
file from a directory called "sigs", into your .signature file in the home
directory. The third line then renames the .sig1 file into .sigH, to "hold"
it out of the cycle of name changes. The fourth through the next-to-last
lines change the other .sig# files to a name that is 1 number higher. Then
the last line changes the .sigH into the last .sig# file. This is the only
way to make changing sigs that I know of without needing knowledge of comp
languages, and without having knowledge of if-then statements. Also,
systems, like mine, that won't allow you to use the cron and sched
commands in .login files will allow this. It's simple and easy if you can
understand how I have made it cycle through the sigs.
-- 
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                              * Jamie T Doran *
                      jtdoran@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu