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Authored by: lllama on May 24, '02 09:23:43AM
A nice alternative to this can be found at the Realm of Anarchy (he's harmless really).
Look for rndsig.tar.gz. It was written as a bash script though, so either install bash or change the first line to sh or tcsh. I'm not too au fait with the shell scripting scene, so I'm sure other changes will be needed.
The real point of this is that the script uses a FIFO, which means that a new sig is generated whenever the .signature file (can be changed) is accessed. Plus it runs as a background process, generating sigs when needed.
Once the author and I sort out our little tiff (I'm the one bugging him to go to the reunion) I'll write a wrapper over it, and add a nice sig file editor.
One more thing...the first sig is a header, the last the footer and all sigs are seperated by #sig# (as I recall).
Bit of effort to get this going, but worth it in my book. Send him an email to bug him to rewrite it: rjy at the realm of anarchy dot co dot uk

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Fortune? - Out of luck? Try rndsig!
Authored by: tochoa on May 24, '02 10:40:45AM

I'm thinking that this would work great with Pine, but not with Mail.app. Mail.app does not use a .signature file. But, I''ll give it a try with pine. Thanks for the tip!
Tony O



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Fortune? - Out of luck? Try rndsig!
Authored by: lllama on May 24, '02 03:54:13PM

Oops. You are correct. I'm used to all my mail programmes using a separate file. If you do end up using it, or even if you don't, let him know. He's a miserable bugger and it'll cheer him up. :-)



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