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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 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
       ==========================================================
       000	rooted	  that's you, dweeb!	      epoch
       ----------------------------------------------------------
       00F	wp	  she's supposed to be	      0:44:12
			  typing up the end of
			  financial year report,
			  but she's been doing her
			  resume when she thinks
			  no-one is watching
       ----------------------------------------------------------
       014	maint	  playing games, as usual     0:51:16

       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.

       /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.

       Sunburne Computer, Inc. 9 October 1991

								   Aug 18, 1997 							  PARTY(1)