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From: john@jfloren.net (John Floren)
Subject: [TUHS] IP in v8-v10
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:38:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyi0sgL9UNyjV_K=mUS9N0FNPGVRT7Tzgst=nX-XMzvn4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529dbb7ed9d90a8ece209cae4229aa3b017040a3@webmail.yaccman.com>

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
> Can't help much, but I did write fish and ching.
>
> ching took a string from the input, hashed it, converted into hexagrams, and
> quoted a couple of lines of i Ching text .  The text was copied from a book,
> presumably copyrighted, although considering how long ago this all was maybe
> the copyright has expired now...
>

Funny you mention ching, I recently went poking around /usr/games and
realized that ching wasn't there any more, although I remembered it
from very old Linux systems. So I found the source somewhere and
applied some extremely basic tweaks to get it building:

https://github.com/floren/ching

As the original author, if you think I ought to take that repo down
for any reason, let me know.

john


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-30 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-30  2:36 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-30  5:02 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-30 11:06 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-03-30 19:29 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-30 21:38   ` John Floren [this message]
2017-03-30 19:44 ` [TUHS] UUNET Steve Johnson
2017-04-03  1:58   ` John S Quarterman
2017-04-05  3:28 ` [TUHS] IP in v8-v10 Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-04-05 12:48   ` Clem Cole

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