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