X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu:444/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/1d283d8a02251ea34cf1e6d488ce76b862634fd1..04ffeb2bb0b6b6bf48060f2f20c508d2b01aa16f:/doc/barnowl_random_zsigs.mdwn diff --git a/doc/barnowl_random_zsigs.mdwn b/doc/barnowl_random_zsigs.mdwn index e2f243c..741dd07 100644 --- a/doc/barnowl_random_zsigs.mdwn +++ b/doc/barnowl_random_zsigs.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ First off, if you haven't already, take a look at BarnOwl's internal documentati :help :show quickstart -(Also viewable outside of BarnOwl, in the form of messier-to-read source code, at [/help.c - BarnOwl - Trac](http://barnowl.mit.edu/browser/help.c) and the "intro" file at [/docs/intro.txt - BarnOwl - Trac](http://barnowl.mit.edu/browser/doc/intro.txt), +(Also viewable outside of BarnOwl, in the form of messier-to-read source code, at [/help.c - BarnOwl - Trac](https://barnowl.mit.edu/browser/help.c) and the "intro" file at [/docs/intro.txt - BarnOwl - Trac](https://barnowl.mit.edu/browser/doc/intro.txt), ### Intro to Zsigs A "zsig" appears after your username (your Athena account name) in Zephyr (see [[Using Zephyr (a.k.a. Zephyr for Dummies)|doc/zephyr]] if you don't know what Zephyr is). @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ Most people keep it that way, since people may not immediately know who you are ### Random Zsig Generator But what if you want to set up a random zsig generator? +**Deprecated: BarnOwl now has better built-in support for zsig randomization than it did when this page was written. Rather than reading the rest of this page, you may want to read `show variable zsigfunc`, and look at `random_zephyr_signature`.** + In outline, we use some bash magic that prints a zsig out to `stdout`, then set up BarnOwl to run that bit of bash magic. BarnOwl has something already which will automagically take that `stdout` and pipe it into your zsig. #### Steps Outside of BarnOwl: Creating the zsigs file