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 preceeded 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 alows 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