From: rsholmes@hydra.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) ************** ---------------------------------------- ********************** \/\/\/\/\ * * /\ * * /\/\/\/\/ Rich Holmes \/\/\/\/\ * * / \ * * /\/\/\/\/ "In the sudden silence (rich@mailbox. \/\/\/\/\ * * / \ * * /\/\/\/\/ as I finished playing, syr.edu) \/\/\/\/\ / ** \ /\/\/\/\/ I looked up to a \/\/\/\/\ / * * \ /\/\/\/\/ circle of grim, "Is that a zucchini \/\/\/\/\/ ** \/\/\/\/\/ expressionless faces." in your pocket... \/\/\/\/ ^^ \/\/\/\/ or is it just a \/\/\/ THE INNER \/\/\/ -- Rush 2112 (IV) banana?" -- Me \/\/ -- CIRCLE -- \/\/ * * \/ \/ Inner circle metaphor #18: * . -------------------- "If it wasn't for the fact * that a monster called The Head was plunging a metal pipe up his nose prepara- "We won't warlord it" -- Nameless One tory to sucking his brains out, Michael Smith could almost laugh." -- P. Milligan ========================== THE INNER CIRCLE ARE ============================ *** *** *** *** -> TIM "JAMES" O'DONOGHUE <- """"""""""""""" * * * * -> JO "RUTH" MEACHEM <- """"""""""""" *** *** -> RACHEL "DVAE" PERKINS <- """"""""""" * * -> NEIL "JESSICA" BOWERS <- """"""""" SIER- *** *** PINSKY -> DEAN "HEATHER" ENGELHARDT <- GREAT """"""" SEAL GAS- * * KET -> DAVE "RICH" SWEENEY X2987 <- "(o)" *** -> SVEN "MATT" GUCKES <- """ * -> NICK "PAUL" LEVERTON <- " -> PAUL "NICK" TOMBLIN <- Timothy F. O'Donohue -> MATT "SVEN" WELSH <- Timothy F. O'Donohue c1984 -> RICH "KAREN" HOLMES <- c1992 -> HEATHER "DEAN" BEAN <- //\\ -> JESSICA "NEIL" RAINE <- /\_ "" _/\ /\_| |_/\ -> KEITH "EDDIE" LIM <- \/ ( ) \/ \/ ## \/ -> RUTH "JO" KNEALE <- \/ -> JAMES "TIM" CHERRY <- -> DVAE "RACHEL" VAN HORN <- -> EDDIE "KEITH" SAXE <- -> KAREN "DAVE" COOPER <- /////////////////////////////////////|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ D W I The Inner Circle of Discworld Gourmands maintains a comprehensive archive C S of all kinds of Discworld muffins, chitterlings, and biscuits, as well S K as an up-to-the-minute itinerary of Terry Pratchett's visits to Australia. I W To receive a free copy of our monthly 'zine 'Oook: The Discworld Diner's D O Life', write to: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk or meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu and D R trade bananas with our resident monk^H^H^H^Horangutans. Disc Weenies Unite! U L M D ___ /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/| D M ____ / //| L U "BEING DEAD |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|/ | "Rincewind R D IS NOT ___ |~~~~~~~~O~~~~~~~~| | Forever!" 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OK, KAREN, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW??? ******************************************************************************* AND HERE'S THE SCRIPT! #!/usr/bin/perl $patw = 17; $patl = 23; $patrn[0]= "JoMeachemDaveSwee"; # I deleted the lines where I initialize $patrn[1 to 21] so this sig # wouldn't be as big!!!! $patrn[22]="dieSaxeKarenCoope"; $ipl = 0; $lastlevel = 0; while (<>) { chop; $stereo = ''; s/ /0/g; # blanks become zeroes in figure $ipw=0; $_ = reverse; # reverse the figure then use chop to process $patnow = $patrn[$ipl]; while (length>0) { $level = chop; if ($level>$lastlevel) { for ($il = $lastlevel; $il < $level; $il++) { $patnow = substr($patnow, 0, $ipw).substr($patnow, $ipw+1). substr($patnow, 0, 1); # up a level - delete character # from pattern $patw--; } } elsif ($level<$lastlevel) { for ($il = $level; $il < $lastlevel; $il++) { $chb = substr($patnow, $ipw-1, 1); $cha = substr($patnow, $ipw, 1); for (;;) { $chnew = substr($patnow, int(rand($patw)), 1); last if ($chnew ne $chb) && ($chnew ne $cha); } $patnow = substr($patnow, 0, $ipw).$chnew. substr($patnow, $ipw); # down a level - add a character # to pattern $patw++; } } $stereo .= substr($patnow, $ipw, 1); $lastlevel = $level; $ipw = ++$ipw % $patw; } $ipl = ++$ipl % $patl; print "$stereo\n"; } ******************************************************************************* Squadron Leader W. 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