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- Short: V2.2: Random string from list into cmd.
- Author: Leo Davidson <leo.davidson@keble.oxford.ac.uk>
- Uploader: Leo Davidson <leo.davidson@keble.oxford.ac.uk>
- Type: util/boot
-
- **** If this file is posted to a BBS which requires an 8.3 filename,
- **** please post it as SupSel22.lha to avoid different people speading
- **** this file from Aminet to BBS with different filenames.
- **** I don't care if you have to replace my informative file_id.diz with
- **** some stupid waste-of-space logo, but please use the suggested
- **** filename!!!!
- **** (Sorry to everyone else for putting this horrible note here, but it
- **** seems some people just can't get the message any other way.. grrr.)
-
- Super-Select is a program which will pick a random string, insert
- it between two other strings, and (optionally) execute the result as if it
- were typed in a shell window.
-
- Can't think of how that could be useful?
-
- Well, say you want a random picture displayed whenever you boot your
- Amiga. The "random string" could be chosen from a file conatining a list of
- the files in your pictures drawer, and the turned into a command line which
- displayed that picture!
-
- Or, you could make it copy one of the files in the list somewhere so
- that it appeared as your Workbench backdrop-picture...
-
- You could even use it as a fortune cookie program, making the "say"
- command speak a randomly selected phrase...
-
- It is even possible to have a random command executed!
-
- I hope that you can think of some cool use for this program to make
- your Amiga a bit different everytime you boot...
-
- During my boot-up (which is quite long given the amount of things
- I run on my 68000 A500) I have one of my 293 boot-pictures shown by Visage,
- while the theme music from either Babylon 5 (series 2), Mission Impossible,
- or Lost In Space plays. When the boot is finished I also play a random
- sample from my collection of 276 (including 107 Beavis'n'Butthead samples).
-
- ** What makes it better than other similar utils? **
-
- I have see one or two programs which do similar things to
- Super-Select, but instead of taking the random string from a file, they
- scan a directory and randomly choose a file within it. This means that they
- waste ages when you have more than a few files in the directory.
-
- Super-Select takes the filename (or whatever) from a list which
- means it can do the selection very quickly, and also means that you
- are not limited to randomly selecting filenames.
-
- Also, with version 2 of Super-Select there is an
- "Exclude mode" which ensures that no line in the list is used twice
- before every line has been selected, so you can be sure that every one of
- your files will be shown to you, even if my random number routine is less
- than perfect.
-
- I hope you like it!
-
- "God money's not looking for the cure"
-
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- | Leo 'Nudel' Davidson - NoOo.o.oOoODLE! | leo.davidson@keble.oxford.ac.uk |
- | Amiga DOpus5 /X WebPage v2.9 03-Mar-96 | http://info.ox.ac.uk/~kebl0364/ |
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 220 184 16.3% 25-Mar-96 11:54:36 file_id.diz
- 234 159 32.0% 25-Mar-96 12:01:10 +Cookie.script
- 13868 6596 52.4% 04-Jan-95 00:00:00 +Cookies.txt
- 3112 1517 51.2% 25-Mar-96 12:21:44 +NS-Select.readme
- 6508 3832 41.1% 25-Mar-96 11:55:42 +Super-Select
- 34914 12274 64.8% 25-Mar-96 12:17:28 +Super-Select.Guide
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- 58856 24562 58.2% 31-Mar-96 13:20:02 6 files
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