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.

think version 1.0                                 April 5, 1996                                         THINK(1)