|
|
- THE BABYLON 5 RANDOM QUOTE GENERATOR FAQ
- http://www.reed.edu/~horde/b5/b5quote.html
- Last modified: Friday, 21-Jul-95 10:39:00 PDT
-
- By: Mr. Heiji Horde, horde@reed.edu
-
- The Babylon 5 Quote FAQ was originally maintained by:
- Michael "The Admiral" Zecca, zecca@starfury.cgd.ucar.edu
-
- Upcoming Releases
-
- It's the *long* wait until October. I'll probably wait until the first
- break during the third season before releasing a new version.
-
- The current version is 2.2
-
- This contains quotes from the TV movie "The Gathering" through the
- second season episode "Confessions and Lamentations".
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- Topics:
-
- * What is it?
- * Why did/didn't you include this line?
- * Where can I get my copy?
- * How do I unpack the program?
- * Why this strange program?
- * What are all these other files?
- * Release schedule
- * What about my Macintosh or DOS box?
- * Possible problems
-
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- What is it?
-
- A homemade fortune program that will generate a random quote from an
- episode of Babylon 5. The program is currently designed to run under
- standard Unix and DOS environments.
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- Why did/didn't you include this line?
-
- I try to capture quotes that:
-
- seem significant to the overall Babylon 5 plotline,
- tell us something about one of the characters,
- sound really funny, or
- sound really cool.
-
- Of course, I might be a little biased towards the lines that I pick.
- So if you'd like to make your own modifications for your own personal
- use, I have no problem with that.
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- Where can I get my copy?
-
- If you want the complete distribution of the B5 random quote generator
- can be found at either of the following anonymous FTP sites:
- * ftp.hyperion.com:/pub/Babylon-5
- * ftp.uml.edu:/Babylon-5
- * ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se:/babylon5
-
- The filenames you're interested in are:
- "b5quotes.tar" - if you're a Unix user
- "b5quotes.zip" - if you're a DOS user
-
- They contain the *SAME* files. So you don't need both of them.
-
- If you just want the updated quotes, you can get them from:
- ftp.reed.edu:/users/horde/quote
- The updated files are be there in various formats for you to
- download. Get the one that is appropriate for you.
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- How do I unpack the program?
-
- To extract the files from the TAR file, type the following:
- tar -xvf B5quotes.tar
-
- For more information on tar, see your man pages.
-
- To extract the files from the ZIP file, type the following:
- unzip b5quote.zip
-
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- What are all these other files?
-
- Version 2.2 contains several other files:
- * General Files
- + HISTORY: the version history of the B5 quote generator
- + README: a little info for you to help you get set up.
- + list-b5.cnf: the configuration file needed by quote ,quotesh,
- or quote.exe
- + quot-b5.0: (uncompressed) quotes from the TV movie
- + quot-b5.1: (uncompressed) quotes from the 1st season
- + quot-b5.2: (uncompressed) quotes from the 2nd season
- * For Unix Users
- + quotesh: the shell executable for a quote files.
- + Makefile and quote.c: C source code for an alternate way to
- generate the random quotes. This runs much faster than
- quotesh.
- * For DOS Users
- + quote.exe: The quote executable
- + b5.bat: A batchfile to run quote.exe with the B5 quotes
-
- Depending which program you decide to use, you'll have you make some
- changes to quotesh, quote.c, or b5.bat to make them run properly on
- your machine. This is covered in the README file.
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- Why this strange program?
-
- The template for the quote generator is based on an old Star Trek: The
- Next Generation quote generator I wrote several years ago. Over the
- years I've played with various formats for the quote files, trying to
- figure out the best way to get what I wanted done. What you see in
- this program is the result of all that.
-
- The new format I'm using for the quotes files should make it easy to
- port them into the standard Unix fortune program. Why not just use the
- standard fortune program? Because when I release updates, I want
- people to be able to just drop the new files in and not worry about
- rehashing a database like you do with the standard fortune
- distribution.
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- Release Schedule
-
- v 1.0, March 1994
- First release by zecca@starfury.cgd.ucar.edu
- Added quotes from TV movie "The Gathering"
- Added quotes from first season episodes "Midnight on the Firing
- Line" through "And the Sky Full of Stars"
-
- v 1.1, June 1994
- Added quotes from first season episodes "Deathwalker" through
- "TKO"
-
- v 1.2, December 1994
- Added quotes from first season episodes "Grail" through "The
- Quality of Mercy"
-
- v 1.99, December 1994
- Taken over by horde@reed.edu
- Added quotes from first season episode "Chrysalis"
- Added quotes from second season episodes "Points of Departure"
- through "Soul Mates"
-
- v 2.0, January 1995
- Cleanup and actual release of version 1.99
-
- v 2.1, March 1995
- Add quotes from second season episodes "A Race Through Dark
- Places" through "Hunter, Prey"
- Starting this version there will be 2 distributions. One for
- Unix platforms (.tar) and one for DOS platforms (.zip). The
- distributions contain the same files, it's just that not all
- DOS users have tar and not all Unix users have zip.
-
- v 2.2, July 1995
- Add quotes from second season episodes "There All The Honor
- Lies" through "Confessions and Lamentations"
-
-
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- What about my Macintosh or DOS box?
-
- It's been a while since I did any programming on a Mac, but if I get a
- chance I might do a port...but then, I might not.
-
- Starting with release 2.0, there is a DOS executable which will read
- the same quote files as the Unix version.
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- Possible Problems
-
- Problems? What Problems?
|
