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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Apr 1995.
Talk: How to have PERL script execute automagically for rand

Talk: How to have PERL script execute automagically for random .sig

On 22 Apr 1995, Bob Allison wrote:

> You execute the script by simply typing in its name in your shell, i.e.:
> sigscript

Pardon me... But I've no knowledge of C lang ... So these Unix cmds will not 
make too much sense to me...

> That's it. If you want to see the changes made automagically on every post,
> then add the following line to your .login file:
> 
> setenv NEWSPOSTER '~/sigs/sigscript\;Pnews -h %h'
> 
> where ~/sigs/sigscript is the full path and name of the script.

What does the Pnews mean??... For my newsgrps I use somethin called 
tin... So what are the neccessary amendments??...

Also when I tried doin a `sh' on the file there's an error on the line 
with srand... Says somethin bout unexpected... Perl gives no err.. but 
then the random feature is still not invoked... 8PP...

Thanx for any help...

Oh BTW... Does this work in pine (ie email??)... Just asked... If I can 
sort out the mess for tin... I might work on pine as well... 

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From: Lawrence Lim <fba...@leonis.nus.sg>
Subject: Talk: How to have PERL script execute automagically for random .sig
Date: 1995/04/27
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