Subj : A new project
To   : Andrew Haworth
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Mon May 07 2018 06:28 pm

Hello Andrew,

07 May 18 18:13 at you wrote to me:

 AH> That sounds really cool. What did the game do?

Check out http://outpostbbs.net/cheepware.html -- look for "The Magic Oracle".

All of my doors are DOS right now.  However, when the dust settles for me 
personally (I am in the middle of a ninety-day probation period in a new job), 
I'm very close to finishing up a working Linux-based Pascal doorkit.  I have 
released doors that run under Linux in a beta form but they are not true doors 
as they don't monitor time online nor use a FOSSIL but instead use stdio under 
Linux.

Here's the "door" if you're wondering.  The ANSWERS.DAT file is just a simple 
text files with a single line per answer.

The codes in the output lines are just ANSI color codes that are "bash-ified".

=== Cut ===
#!/bin/bash
FILE=answers.dat
if [ ! -f "$FILE" ]
then
  echo "ANSWERS.DAT not found!"
  echo "Program aborting."
  exit 1
fi

clear
echo -e "\e[92mThe Magic Oracle/BASH"
echo -e "\e[36mWritten by and (C)2017 Sean Dennis."
echo
echo -e "\e[96mWhat is your question for the Oracle?\e[37m"
read QUESTION
echo
echo -e "\e[92mYour question was:"
echo -e "\e[37m$QUESTION"
echo
echo -e "\e[95mAfter consulting the Oracle, his answer is...\e[33m"

# Pick and display a random line in ANSWERS.DAT.
sort --random-sort $FILE | head -n 1
echo -e "\e[39m"
=== Cut ===

The real trick is in the second to the last line. ;)

Later,
Sean

.... A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)

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