chris@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) (03/09/91)
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... Thanks. -- chris@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov ...!uunet!asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov!chris
bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (03/10/91)
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. << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't HAVE the work to *do* -- I don't DO the work I *have*."