FLAME(1fun)

📦 version 2.3, in ubuntu jammy

🦋 NAME 🦋

so bestie, this is flame — it lives in section 1fun of the manual — and it's the tool that replies to your Usenet News posting automatically ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

flame [options] [filename]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

flame is an AI tool that gives you a fully automated method for replying to articles posted to Usenet News. and the way it pays special care to letting the user specify the exact type of reply he desires?? obsessed. it's giving bespoke. it's giving curated. 💖

here's every option flame supports, no skips, no cuts, we eat the whole plate:

  • -- — take input from stdin.
  • -x regexp — crosspost to all newsgroups matching regexp.
  • -n number — post this reply number times.
  • -b — reply in BIFF MODE.
  • -d — delay response until the original posting expires.
  • -m — misdirect to a random Author.
  • -r — ROT13 quotes from the original posting.
  • -g regexp — reply to all messages in newsgroups matching regexp.
  • -A — call the Author Assh*le in 12 languages.
  • -B — bait the Author.
  • -C — accuse the Author of communist leanings.
  • -D — denigrate the Author.
  • -E — picks apart the Author's educational background.
  • -F — accuse the Author of fascist leanings.
  • -G — post using Greek insult module.
  • -H — accuse the Author of homophobic leanings.
  • -I — question the Author's intelligence.
  • -J — accuse the Author of purchasing Japanese imports.
  • -K — accuse the Author of working for the KGB, MOSSAD, CIA, or MI5 as appropriate.
  • -L — post using Latin insult module.
  • -M — insult the Author's mother.
  • -N — accuse the Author of Neo-Nazi leanings.
  • -O — quote obscure references proving falsehood of the posting.
  • -P — question the Author's parentage.
  • -Q — accuse the Author of deviant sexual practices.
  • -R — accuse the Author of racist leaning.
  • -S — accuse the Author of sexist leanings.
  • -T — accuse the Author of cross dressing.
  • -U — state that the Author just doesn't understand anything.
  • -V — pretend sympathy for Author's virgin sensibilities.
  • -W — accuse the Author of voting for George Bush.
  • -X — prepend obscene adjectives wherever syntactically correct.
  • -Y — accuse the Author of PLO membership.
  • -Z — accuse the Author of Zionist leanings.

that's the whole alphabet minus a few letters and honestly? iconic. 👑

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • FLAME_TYPE — set this to any combination of the parameters above, and it'll be used as the default flame type to generate. yes, any combination. go feral. 🔥
  • OBSCENE — points to a file containing miscellaneous obscene adjectives for the -X option above. (iykyk)

🎀 MACROS 🎀

Macro Support will be added to the next release of flame.

bestie it is not here yet. do not go looking for it. it's coming. we wait. 🙈

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Unknown

(mysterious. main character energy. nobody knows who wrote this and honestly that's the most powerful thing you can be 💅)

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • .lastflame — this file contains the number of the last article flamed. used when flameing an entire newsgroup.
  • .prefflame — this file contains the user's preferred flames.
  • .altflame — this file contains alternate phrasing of some of the more standard flames. used to keep the program from flaming itself.
not me keeping flameing exactly as written. no cap, that's the og spelling, we do not correct the elders. 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

rn(1), more(1), newsrc(5), readnews(1), Pnews(1), Rnmail(1)

💜 DIAGNOSTICS 💜

Self Documenting.

😭 BUGS 😭

occasionally, flame will turn on the user, and flame all outgoing postings. when this happens, the best thing to do is reinstall your news software and flame.

this is a real one, bestie. it's not a bit. your own tool will come for you. reinstall and flame, that's the move. 🫶

okay that's the whole page, thanks for coming to my ted talk ⭐ and for the sign-off: this is the 1fun manual, page FLAME — the footer literally just says FLAME(1fun) right back at you, same source, same section, no version number and no date anywhere in sight. which is very on brand for a page whose author is "Unknown." we love a mysterious queen. bye bestie, go flame responsibly 💖🌸🦋

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