Short: Dissect "rec.humor.oracle" articles Author: wnoeker@t-online.de (Wilhelm Noeker) Uploader: wnoeker@t-online.de (Wilhelm Noeker) Type: util/misc Ever read "rec.humor.oracle"? Like it? Already seen the archive at ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/oracle? Whoa! Almost 10000 pieces of humour and wisdom, in about 400 files (each containing between 1 and 5 of the original news articles), totaling 14 MByte. "OrySplit" was written to deal with these archive files. It can split them into the original news articles and, even better, convert them to fortune cookie format. You can then have a program like "cookie" (util/misc/cookie20.lha, cookie21.lha) or "IntuiCookie" (util/misc/ ICookieRT.lha, ICookieMUI.lha) pick and display Oracularities at random. And you can apply "CookieTool" (util/misc/cookietool.lha) to them, to select Oracularities of a minimum or maximum size, or only those that contain certain keywords. One example file, "918-919" is supplied. Try these commands: orysplit 918-919 ; creates articles 918 through 919 orysplit 918-919 -c >wisdom ; creates a cookie file The following examples assume that you have the "CookieTool" archive, too: cookietool wisdom -ss ; sort by size cdbsplit wisdom temp -x -kmicrosoft -Kbill -Kgates ; extract MS stuff One more hint: The archive files at cs.indiana are packed in Unix .Z format. You might use gzip (util/pack/gzip124x2.lha) to unpack them. Or, if bandwidth doesn't matter, you can also have the ftp server uncompress them for you, by e.g. requesting a file called "922-924", when the file is actually listed as "922-924.Z". "OrySplit" is freeware, C-source is included. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 35275 15069 57.2% 26-Oct-97 00:00:18 +918-919 11892 6915 41.8% 25-Oct-97 23:38:48 +orysplit 4254 1479 65.2% 25-Oct-97 23:38:32 +orysplit.c 1697 896 47.2% 26-Oct-97 01:10:08 +orysplit.readme 463 272 41.2% 26-Oct-97 01:23:06 +orysplit.readme.info 628 273 56.5% 26-Oct-97 01:23:06 orysplit.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 54209 24904 54.0% 27-Oct-97 02:31:10 6 files