<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0"> <title>Random Effects</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#551A8B" text="#FFFFFF" link="#00FFFF" vlink="#008000" alink="#FF0000"> <h1>The Random Effects Utility</h1> <hr> <h3>What it is</h3> <p>The random_effect program is really a gross hack. It was inspired by an idea donated by <font face="Times New Roman"><code>Thilo Wunderlich <c15o@zfn.uni-bremen.de></code></font> who asked for such a feature. The program takes 1 commandline argument - a file name. </p> <h3>Format of <code>random_effect</code> config file</h3> <pre> Line #1 = commandline to run xbanner (absolute path) </pre> <p>The rest of the lines are simply pathnames of XBanner resource files. </p> <p>After reading the file, the program will select an effect file by random, and execute the needed things. </p> <h3>Notes</h3> <p>If you need to put a "-display" to xbanner, then your first line in the random-effect database file will look like: </p> <pre> /usr/local/bin/X11/xbanner -display ggf:0 </pre> <p>Again, thanks to <font face="Times New Roman"><code>Thilo Wunderlich <c15o@zfn.uni-bremen.de></code></font> for pushing me in this direction. This is a neat addition to XBanner. <br> </p> <p><a href="index.html">Back to Index</a> </p> </body> </html>