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From: bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: Talking Moose?
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Date: 9 Mar 91 16:09:52 GMT
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In article <CHRIS.91Mar8174603@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov> chris@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) writes:
>One of the machines around here used to have something which may have been
>called Talking Moose, which would annoy you by saying things like 
>	Haven't you got something better to do?
>Does this still exist? I didn't find it on sumex...

You can get the demo of version 2.0 by buying the book "Stupid Mac
Tricks" (it comes with a disk containing the Moose and a few other
silly things), or from anonymous ftp to ub-mts.cc.umich.edu.

(I downloaded it, but I can't seem to get the Moose to work under
System 7.  Has anyone else succeeded in this?)

Using umich is different; here's what the FAQ list posted here
regularly has to say about it:

Q: How do I get stuff from um-mts.cc.umich.edu?

A: Like I said, it's a different beast.  It fools you because everything
   is in one *huge* directory, even though there are slashes ('/') in
   the file names.  Here's what to do there (based on ftp-ing from a
   Unix system.  I have no idea what it's like from VMS):

        cd pc2:
                [This puts you where you can get the Mac stuff.]
        get !index umich-index
                [Transfer the index.  Believe me, you don't want to do
                an 'ls' here!  The 'umich-index' tells Unix what to name
                it on your machine.  If you leave it out, you'll get a
                file named '!INDEX', which will cause you lots of grief
                if you use the C-shell.]
        bye

   Now peruse the index.  You'll notice that files have names like
   FO/NIFTY-FONT.  That slash in the filename will freak Unix out.  If
   you simply type 'get fo/nifty-font', you'll get an error message
   stating that the file couldn't be created (unless you happen to have
   a directory named 'fo' in your current directory).  To deal with
   this, just use the above suggestion, type 'get fo/nifty-font
   nifty-font.hqx' (or whatever filename you want to give it).

   The files are all in BinHex form.

I don't remember what the name of the Moose file is, but it shouldn't
be that difficult to find.

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