Okay, this may sound a bit off-the-wall, but I thought it was a neat idea. I'm sure everyone who has ever worked on a Linux box is familiar with the fortune shell command. I've rarely worked on UNIX, but it may have it also. Is there any way I could get fortune piped in so that Puff can use it in her silly little monologues? I thought about saving some pf the output from fortune to a file and just have her "read" from the file from time to time, but she would repeat herself much more often that way, as opposed to a live pipe. An embeded perl script in autorun.pl could easily keep the file updated, but why use a script when you have a binary running with pretty much the same capabilities. Besides, a file would create an unnecessary disk space problem after a bit. Are there any pros and cons that I am missing here? Like should a MOB actually have the ability (through a spec-proc) to call shell commands? Is this exploitable? Or would it be a waste of my time when there is an easier method of making her talk goofy and rarely repeat herself? -FIRE +------------------------------------------------------------------+------+ | Get your MUD on @ Euridia.com! | __ | | http://www.euridia.com -- Your ultimate MUD resource | (oO) | | telnet://euridia.com:4545 -- Euridia MUD | /||\ | | telnet://euridia.com:4000 -- The E2K Project | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+------+ -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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