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From: mithelen@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Paul Jerkatis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: PD software, etc.
Keywords: Unix, OS/9, Environment, Lot's o stuff
Message-ID: <1880@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 27 Oct 89 03:55:28 GMT
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Reply-To: mithelen@jolnet.UUCP (Paul Jerkatis)
Organization: Jolnet, Public Access Unix, Orland Park (Joliet), Ill.
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Spew is a program which creates random, syntaxically/gramaically correct
sentences (ya, i know, I am lousy at spelling and grammer!) from a data file.
Really neet... You can generate all types of data files, the one that i have 
contains the stuff needed to make "National Enquierer" type headlines, kind
of a take of of the fortune program. I have head that to original author of
spew had a data file that will allow spew to generate random C source code,
all of it being syntaxtiaclly correct... A place where this spew program can
come in really handy in a practical mannor, is if you needed to create a data
file for say.. and adventure game you were writing that needed a bunch of
sentences. Just create the spew data file which contains rules and sentence 
parts/nouns/verbs. tell it to create 10000 sentences and redirect the output
to a file. And, before you know it, you have just created you database of 
random sayings for you adventure.... Not bad... Perhaps I will post the source
here, It is written in C.

Oh, BTW the SZ/RZ zmodem program I am working on IS for the CoCo version of
OS9...
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