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From: as38@macbeth.umd.edu (Patrick Amato)
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Subject: Re: Anyway to randomize sig files?
Date: 15 Dec 1994 16:57:21 -0500
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In article <3cppfl$mc9@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
	[deleted talk about randomizing sigs.]
>
>
>How about with Pine? Any way possible?

	As you know Pine uses the file .signature (sp?) as its
	default signature. I think you may have to set the option to"on" but
	you get the point.

	Now, the key then is to get the file .signature to change.
	Let say you keep your sigs like this (by filename)
	.sig0 .sig1 .sig2 and so on.
	Then a script would simply have to
	  1) rm .signature
	  2) generate a random number
	  3) use that number to pick one of the .sig# files.

	This script could be run by a cron job
	or you could execute it by calling it in your
	.login file. Of cousre the permission on the
	script would have to be 700 or 755.. ect.

	Type "man sh" for some insights.

	For those who dont know much about 
	UNIX this may sound like a bunch of jibberish.

	In that case perhaps someone who has such a script
	would be willing to share it..

	Dan, if you know the programming language "C"
	I would be willing to send you the code that
	changes the assci image in the motd every day.

	If you know "C" you could easily modify to 
	generate a random .signature every time you
	executed the program.

	ltr-p-

>Dan (+: