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Spreitzer, January 16, 1986 1:35:44 pm PST
Promptery
CEDAR 6.0 — FOR INTERNAL XEROX USE ONLY
Promptery
Mike Spreitzer
© Copyright 1986 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
Abstract: Promptery gives you a different prompt every command. The prompts are chosen randomly from a (user-specified) weighted list. The default list is somewhat eccentric.
Created by: Mike Spreizer
Maintained by: Mike Spreitzer <Spreitzer.pa>
Keywords: Command Tool, Prompt
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For Internal Xerox Use Only
1. Installation
In Filesystem
Bringover the public parts of Promptery.DF into the commands directory.
In User Profile
Here are the entries Promptery uses:
Promptery.Sources: LIST OF Token ← LIST["Prompts.txt"]
Directory defaults to installation directory.
Promptery.Enabled: BOOL ← FALSE
You should set Promptery.Enabled to TRUE, and optionally specify some files containing possible prompts and their relative probabilities.
In Memory
Issue the command
% Promptery
in the command tools you want buggered.