Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:29:10 +0950 From: "Paul Smedley" Subject: [VOICENWS] Randomizer 4.0 Released July 29, 2001 After exactly one year in stasis, Don Eitner has released Randomizer 4.0. Randomizer is a lightweight database built with the specific intention of selecting random items from lists (fields, arrays, etc). The Randomizer.cmd script is accompanied by DataInput.cmd which acts as the database creation and editing tool. Other front-ends could be easily coupled with DataInput.cmd but thus far no others are known to exist. This could be useful for many things such as developing quick characters for a story or role playing game, the basis of a lottery number picker, or theoretically scientific work involving random data. Primary download location: http://freiheit.syntheticdimension.net/os2-myapps.shtml Randomizer 4.0 is powered by Pun Technology. "Pun is a play on words()." To make a long story short, Pun Technology is a replacement for OS/2's Rexx words(), word(), and delword() functions which allows Randomizer 4.0 to use non-space characters as field delimiters in the data file. This allows more effective handling of fields which contain spaces without the need for special place holder characters as in previous versions of Randomizer. Randomizer 4.0 is donation-ware. If you like it you are asked to send $5 to encourage further development. If you don't like it, let me know what you don't like about it and maybe I can make it better. --------------- Don "Freiheit" Eitner * Developer of The 13th Floor website (http://freiheit.syntheticdimension.net) * Official redhead admirer * Using OS/2 because I want to, not because I "have to". ----------- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajoratos2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submitatos2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedbackatos2voice.org