Index of /course/21/21w765j/common

      Name                    Last modified       Size  Description


[DIR] Parent Directory        26-Jan-2000 21:41      -  
[   ] conv-edit.pl            22-May-1996 17:31     8k  
[   ] conv-lib.pl             22-May-1996 17:23     7k  
[   ] conv-lib2.pl            22-May-1996 17:23     8k  
[   ] conversation            22-May-1996 17:24     1k  
[   ] conversation2           22-May-1996 17:32     1k  
[   ] parseform.pl            22-May-1996 17:29     1k  

"conversation" and "conversation2"
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These programs allow you to run conversation on Athena.

Usage is:

conversation CharacterFileName

"conversation" is essentially true to the original Mac version.
"conversation2" has some bug fixes and allows the characters to spit things
	back out at the users by using (.*) to match something and __1__ to
	reply with that word.

Eg:

Pattern:	My name is (.*)
Reply:		Well, hello __1__

will do what it should.

"conv-edit.pl"
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This is the CGI Authoring interface for characters that can be used
with 'conversation' above.

In order to use it, it must be installed on a web server, configured
to run as a CGI script.  The first 4 lines of the script must be
modified to suit the local environment.

The first line must be modified to match the path to perl.
The second line must be changed to the path for the parseform.pl
	package, also in this directory
The third line must be changed to the path for the conv-lib2.pl
	package, also in this directory
The fourth line must be changed to the path of the directory where
	character files will be locally stored.

This last directory must be writeable by the web server so it can save
characters.