Subject: random .signature files

From: [email-masked] (P.H. Van broekhoven)
Date: 6 Jan 1996 00:17:21 -0500

Is it possible (and if so how) to have PINE generate a random .signature?

IE, everytime I compose a message, it pulls out a random quote (or other 
bit of text) from a list.

Thanks.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:06:41 +0000 (GMT)

It isn't possible in Pine 3.91 (unless you dive in and modify your local 
copy of the source code and recompile!).

However I *think* I heard a rumour that this may be in Pine 3.92 (don't 
hold me to this as I may be wrong).

Personally I would prefer to see automatic use of local/remote signature
files instead of the frill of random ones ... but then I may be old 
fashioned in thinking that the _content_ of a message is more important 
than the signature.  :-)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 22:44:12 -0800 (PST)

> hold me to this as I may be wrong).

Nope, no signature handling changes in store that I can think of.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Philip Fabbro)
Date: 11 Jan 1996 04:42:35 GMT

Pine's alternate editor command (CTRL-_) can actually call any external
program you specify in setup, config.  Having it call a script that
implements random signatures would not be terrible difficult to write. 

You'd be composing in pico, finish your letter, and hit CTRL-_ to call the
script.  The script would take the file (the name of which is passed to it
by pine as the first command-line argument), concatenate a random
signature, and then exit, returning you to pico, where you'd hit control-X
to send the letter on its merry way. 

I frequently use CTRL-_ as a facility to call scripts.  If you really get
into it, you can even write a menu allowing you to choose which script you
want to call. 

Andrew Fabbro       [email-masked]      http://www.umich.edu/~afabbro/
"When in Bologna will a Fabbro rise again?" - Dante's Purgatorio, Canto XIV