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.TH PARTY 1fun "Aug 18, 1997" ""
.SH NAME
party \- set OS responses mode
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B party ON|OFF|WHEREIS [ - ] dnv
.SH DESCRIPTION
Operating  systems  being  what they are,  the admin people can
easily  grow tired of  command responses that resemble dyslexic
eugene-speak   filtered   through   Kernighan   and   Ritchie's
collective  back-brains.  To alleviate this, we have included a
slightly  more  `casual'  mode,  in  which the responses to all
commands  are  first filtered  through  a  customising  routine
.B (DUDE)
, which  makes them  sound a little more  friendly while retaining
their  full  information   content  (usually).   The rooted(c)
system prompt is  changed to  `What now,  dude?' and output from
each command is terminated by `No problem, dude.'
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
Verbose mode  (ALL commands  have  a `verbose' mode). When  this  option
is  present,  all filtered responses are  preceded  by a message:
`This response has been parsed by the
.B DUDE
filter and is not intended to be some sort of sleazy come-on.'
.TP
.B \-d
Don't  restart  all  processes  after  recompiling the
.B /uselss/libs/eugene
file (see below).   This allows any important tasks to complete beforehand.
.TP
.B \-n
Notify  all  users  that  they  are about to be force-logged out and
force-logged in again.
.TP
.B ON
Activates the
.B DUDE
filter.
.TP
.B OFF
De-activates the
.B DUDE
filter.
.TP
.B WHEREIS
Doesn't do anything, but we couldn't resist it.
.SH EXAMPLES
.ft C
%-)  party on

What now, dude?

.ft TR
To compare  the differing responses, here is output provided by the
ispi -s command, with party OFF and party ON:

party OFF

.ft C
line     who       why                         how long
.br
\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=
.br
000      rooted    that's you, dweeb!          epoch
.br
\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
.br
00F      wp        she's supposed to be        0:44:12
                   typing up the end of
                   financial year report,
                   but she's been doing her
                   resume when she thinks
                   no-one is watching
.br
\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
.br
014      maint     playing games, as usual     0:51:16
.ft TR


party ON

.ft C
Well,  let's see who's on, eh?  There's you, of course, on line 000
(Imagine that!  Hahaha!)  Oh look,  on serIOus line 00F,  it's that
cute little secretary - looks like she's lost her keyboard template
again, she's been hitting the escape key for the past five minutes!
AND  OF  COURSE, the  guys  down in maintenance are playing `cosmic
ballcrushers'.   As  usual.   Well,  who  else,  um,  no-one really
interesting like,  ya know, oh hang on,  DTR is toggling on serIOus
line 03D.. oh, no problem, it's that stuffed modem again.  You want
maybe I should send  some AMail to maintenance  and get 'em to look
at it?   No problem, dude.

What now, dude?
.ft TR
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /uselss/libs/bill&ted/DUDE
.nf
This  is  the pipe process,  usually
started  at system shoe,  which lies
idle until party ON is issued.
.fi
.TP
.B /uselss/libs/eugene
.nf
Contains all of the ordinary, ho-hum
confusing   computer   -   jargonese
responses  which commands ordinarily
issue.  Text file.
.fi
.TP
.B /uselss/libs/eugene.spoo
.nf
compiled version of the eugene file.
.fi
.TP
.B /ephemeral/eugene.chex
.nf
Checksum  for  the  compiled  eugene file.
.fi
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR crp (1),
.IR stuffio (2),
.IR doobrie (9),
.IR gouge (3),
.IR ftang (65534),
.IR wi (-1),
.IR edmond (29),
.IR jumpstart (2),
.IR vo_mit (992)
.SH BUGS
The
.B \-n
option can be slow.

If  the n option is issued,  some users in a wi editing session
may not  receive the  `warning, restart imminent' message until
after the restart.

There is no way selectively to follow symbolic links.

Sunburne Computer, Inc. 9 October 1991