Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 21:15:25 01/29/05
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On January 30, 2005 at 00:11:34, Peter Skinner wrote: >On January 29, 2005 at 23:10:09, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>Since I live in the wonderful world of unix, I have created two scripts to play >>on ICC: zicclaunch and ziccstandalone. One connects me to ICC; the other >>connects me to ICC, sets Xboard to issue a seek as soon as the first game ends, >>and looks for a game immediately. >> >>I would like to add a line to my finger notes so that people know when I am >>likely to be present or not. This line would be set to something like >>"Standalone mode - Operator is probably not there" or nothing at all. The >>question is: how do I zero a line? >> >>For example, suppose I try the standard "set 7". That will zero the line if it >>was previously in standalone mode, but it will create an empty fingernote if it >>was in manual mode before. I've played around with it a bit, and I'm starting >>to think that there is no sequence that will work. Of course, I would be happy >>to be proved wrong if anyone has tried something like this before. >> >>anthony > >I do the following: > >I set up a login script that has my username/password, my aliases to seek games, >the actual seeks themselves, then I add my finger notes. So the format would >look like this: > >Peter (username) >Skinner (password) >+alias ga1 multi seek 3 1 r f m; seek 5 3 r f m; seek 15 3 r f m; rematch >+alias ga2 say Thanks for the game! >+alias ga3 say Are you sure you didn't think you were playing checkers? >seek 3 1 r f m >seek 5 3 r f m >seek 15 3 r f m >set 1 Peter Robot v.10 >set 2 PIV 2.0Ghz - 512mb ram - Cronix Alpha Beta Newbie Blend Gold Edition >set 3 Bill Gates is a midget > >Then I just add the file name to the -icslogon icc2.txt at the end of my >commandline. All the above commands are executed as soon as I login, so I can >walk away and look at the games in the morning. > >I do the exact same thing under Windows as I would under Linux. > >Peter Sorry I should have added that if you want to remove a line in one script, and add it in another, just make two separate login files, and do the following: set 6 I will own you, and your mom is a bucket of bolts. set 7 Standalone mode - Operator is not around. Talk to the hand. Then in the manual file: set 6 I will own you, and your mom is a bucket of bolts. set 7 That will clear the previous finger note, then when you login with the _other_ login file, the finger note will be added once again.
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