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NAME

       think - you don't have to think, the computer can think for you

SYNOPSIS

       think [ -detach ]

DESCRIPTION

       Think simulates a thinking brain.

       This  can  be  useful if someone is not wanting to think at invocation time or if someone is needing some
       thinking about something.  It can also be  helpful  if  someone's  brain  is  not  working  correctly  at
       invocation time.

       When  invoked,  think  will  go ahead and look at all of the commands and keystrokes that a user has made
       during the current login session.  Think will then look at what files the user has.  From this  and  what
       level the user is listed at in the file /usr/lib/think, think will figure out what the user was trying to
       do when think was invoked.

DEVICES

       The process that think uses to help a user is greatly aided if the user is wearing a brain interface  bus
       (bib)  device.   A bib device is normally worn on the head, and if being used, then think will try to see
       what was going through the users head at the time of invocation.  After think does  this,  it  will  send
       electric  signals  to  the  users brain, causing the user to type in whatever keystrokes are necessary to
       accomplish the task that he/she doesn't want to think about.

OPTIONS

       -detach
              also known as "Must mother do all of your thinking for you?"-mode.  This options causes  think  to
              run  in  the background as a daemon that watches for users who look like they may need assistance.
              When a user is found to be exercising cluelessness, think will lock up  their  keyboard  and  will
              proceed  to  execute  what  seems  to  be  the  most likely sequence of commands that the user had
              intended to execute.  This flag may only be used by the super-user.

FILES

       /dev/brain
              bib device special file.

       /usr/lib/think
              file to indicate various user abilities.  The format of this file  is  a  username  on  each  line
              followed  by  some  whitspace and then a number.  The higher the number for a given user, the more
              likely think is to assume that that user knows what he/she is doing.   Unfortunately,  what  think
              considers a large number will vary with usage.

BUGS

       If  a  user is using a bib device and actually lacks a brain of their own, then there is a high risk that
       think will take over their (non-existent) minds.  This has the upshot that someone other  than  the  user
       will have to stop the program.  (Perhaps this is a feature.)

       It may illegal in some areas to force users to wear bib devices.

AUTHOR

       This  man  page  was  written  by John Guthrie <guthrie@math.upenn.edu> with suggestions from Kevin Whyte
       <kwhyte@math.upenn.edu> for the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection.