peri .signature

[Stelios Bounanos]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:19:25AM +0300, Papadociammjgr Bacc]kgr 
 <papas at wise.gr> was rumoured to have said:

> Kalimera.
> 
> As ipo8esoume oti kapoios 8elei anti gia ena .signature, na mporei na mpainei aftomata i eksodos enos programmatos. 8a mporouse px na einai i eksodos tou fortune (best-of-ricudis, leme tora). Yparxei kapoios tropos na ginei kati tetoio?
> 
> fisika, de milao na einai rithmisi tou mailer, enoo kati pou na einai cross-program.
> Kamia idea?

Mporeis na kaneis to .signature named pipe sto opoio kati 8a grafei ta
fortune cookies 'h otidhpote, p.x.:

% mkfifo .signature
% while :; do fortune > .signature; sleep 1; done &
[1] 8962

% cat .signature
design, v.:
        What you regret not doing later on.

% cat .signature
The world is coming to an end.  Please log off.


HTH..

Rgds,
/-sb.

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Stelios Bounanos <sb at dial.pipex.com>
  ..............7500000 years later:
  The Ultimate Answer is 42.
  (next mail will give the Question)