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cowsay 3.02
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1999-08-14 08:03:16 +00:00
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cowsay is a configurable talking cow, written in Perl. It operates
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much as the figlet program does, and it written in the same spirit
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of silliness.
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cowsay is actually a pretty old program. It has not really been
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released before, and I am releasing it in the hope that someone
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other than myself will be amused by it.
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The first major version of cowsay had one cow and one message
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template: $foo is $verb $bar. Not very flexible, but people managed
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to do pretty interesting things with it. The second major version
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scrapped many of the limitations of the first, by allowing arbitrary
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messages, multiple cowfiles, and even support for cows talking in
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figlet. The third version was a rewrite of the second into Perl
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5, whereupon the code got a lot smaller and more manageable. :-)
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To install cowsay, consult the INSTALL file in this directory.
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For the terms and conditions of use, consult the LICENSE file in
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this directory.
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-- Tony Monroe (tony@nog.net)
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$Id$
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