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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  preceded  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 allows 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(1fun)