PARTY(1) USER COMMANDS PARTY(1)
PENIX OPERATING SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION PENIX
NAME
party - set OS responses mode
SYNOPSIS
party ON|OFF|WHEREIS [ - ] dnv
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
(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.'
OPTIONS
v Verbose mode (ALL Penix commands have a `verbose'
mode). When this option is present, all filtered
responses are preceeded by a message: `This response
has been parsed by the DUDE filter and is not intended
to be some sort of sleazy come-on.'
d Don't restart all processes after recompiling the
/uselss/libs/eugene file (see below). This alows any
important tasks to complete beforehand.
n Notify all users that they are about to be force-
logged out and force-logged in again.
ON Activates the DUDE filter.
OFF De-activates the DUDE filter.
WHEREIS Doesn't do anything, but we couldn't resist it.
EXAMPLES
%-) party on
What now, dude?
To compare the differing responses, here is output provided by the
ispi -s command, with party OFF and party ON:
party OFF
line who why how long killable
==================================================================
000 rooted that's you, dweeb! epoch no
------------------------------------------------------------------
00F wp she's supposed to be 0:44:12 eminently
typing up the end of
financial year report,
but she's been doing her
resume when she thinks
no-one's watching.
------------------------------------------------------------------
014 maint playing games, as usual 0:51:16 only just
party ON
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?
FILES
/uselss/libs/bill&ted/DUDE This is the pipe process, usually
started at system shoe, which lies
idle until party ON is issued.
/uselss/libs/eugene Contains all of the ordinary, ho-hum
confusing computer - jargonese
responses which commands ordinarily
issue. Text file.
/uselss/libs/eugene.spoo compiled version of the eugene file.
/uselss/libs/bill&ted/lexicon Like the eugene file, this is a text
file containing all responses from
ordinary commands. It replaces the
eugene file when `party ON' is
issued, and causes an OI_MOOSH
message to be issued to the
WHATS_ALL_THIS_THEN daemon, which
then freezes all currently active
tasks, recompiles the eugene file
and restarts all serIOus processes
with output directed through the
DUDE filter.
/ephemeral/eugene.chex Checksum for the compiled eugene
file.
SEE ALSO
crp(1), stuffio(2), doobrie(9), gouge (3), ftang(65534),
wi(-1), edmond(29), jumpstart(2), vo_mit(992)
BUGS
The 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.
If you alter the /uselss/libs/bill&ted/lexicon file and
manually compile it with the vo_mit recursed text compiler,
the checksum which is ordinarily output to /uselss/der/ttbowl
should be retrieved and appended to /ho_hum/eugene.chex. This
does not happen automatically, and is expected to be fixed at
the next revision of the operating system (snicker).
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Sunburne Computer, Inc. 9 October 1991
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