begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:42:25PM -0800: > Lan Barnes wrote: [chop] > I am unfamiliar with strfile and randstr. I mentioned that this was in > conjunction with a Thunderbird plugin. The formatting of the sig file > follows the conventions of that plugin.
...which got it from the fortune program. Dunno if Ken Arnold invented that format or not. But I saw his name in association with it earlier today, so I tend to think the format did indeed originate with the fortune program. > >I've done perl. Tcl was better. > > What appeals to me the most about my gleanings from my lurking on Tcl > conversations is that with Tk, gui interfaces seem to be fairly easy to > construct on top of the Tcl programs. Yup. For awhile I was building Tcl/Tk automation widgets for fun. Wonder what happened to all that code? -- Not that it was super clever or anything But it did the job it was supposed to do. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
