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From: bauer@gtetel.com (Danni Bauer)
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Subject: Answer: What call do you make to get a random selection???
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Bruce Laplante (ccblapl@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us) wrote:

> Danni Bauer (bauer@gtetel.com) wrote:

> : David S. Issel (dissel@nunic.nu.edu) wrote:

> : > +------ Ryan Tucker (rtucker@worf.infonet.net) wrote: -----------
> : > |
> : > | If you're using "tin", there's a way to have tin randomly select a sig 
> : > | out of a directory.  If anyone's interested, I can take a clip out of the 
> : > | man page :-)


> : Simply create a directory in your $HOME directory called  .Sig

> : Any file in that directory will be in the list that tin will use
> : to randomly select a signature. Also, if you create a file in your
> : $HOME called  .sigfixed, that file will ALWAYS be included above
>  
> }snip{

> OK, but what call do you make to get a random selection???
> i.e: I use [ESC] :r filename.sig 

[cut out]

You don't have to call anything; it's automatic. When I pressed 'f', it
quoted the message, put my .sigfixed file and a random Sig file at the
bottom and put me into the editor.

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