PARTY(1fun)

📦 version 2.3, in ubuntu jammy

✨ party(1fun) — bestie edition ✨

okay so you found party(1fun), the absolute iconic little page from the 1fun section, and honestly? she's a whole vibe. buckle up. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

party — sets the OS responses mode. that's it. that's the job. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

party ON|OFF|WHEREIS [ - ] dnv

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so, bestie, operating systems are gonna operating-system, and the admin people can very easily get tired of command responses that read like dyslexic eugene-speak run through Kernighan and Ritchie's collective back-brains. 😭 literally nobody asked for that.

to fix it, they included a slightly more casual mode, where the responses to all commands get filtered through a customising routine called DUDE first, which makes them sound a little more friendly while retaining their full information content (usually). 🫶

in this mode:

  • the rooted(c) system prompt becomes What now, dude?
  • and the output from each command gets terminated by No problem, dude.

periodt. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v — verbose mode, and yes, ALL commands have a verbose mode. when this option is present, all the filtered responses get preceded by this message: This response has been parsed by the DUDE filter and is not intended to be some sort of sleazy come-on. 😳
  • -d — don't restart all processes after recompiling the /uselss/libs/eugene file (peep the FILES section below, bestie). this lets any important tasks finish up first. 🧚
  • -n — notify all users that they're about to be force-logged out and force-logged in again. heads up, friend. 💀
  • ON — activates the DUDE filter. slay. 🔥
  • OFF — de-activates the DUDE filter. rip. 🙈
  • WHEREIS — doesn't do anything, but honestly? they couldn't resist it. and we respect that. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

%-)  party on

What now, dude?

to compare the differing responses, here's the output from the ispi -s command, with party OFF and party ON:

party OFF

line     who       why                         how long
==========================================================
000      rooted    that's you, dweeb!          epoch
----------------------------------------------------------
00F      wp        she's supposed to be        0:44:12
                  typing up the end of
                  financial year report,
                  but she's been doing her
                  resume when she thinks
                  no-one is watching
----------------------------------------------------------
014      maint     playing games, as usual     0:51:16

party ON

Well,  let's see who's on, eh?  There's you, of course, on line 000
(Imagine that!  Hahaha!)  Oh look,  on serIOus line 00F,  it's that cute
little secretary - looks like she's lost her keyboard template again,
she's been hitting the escape key for the past five minutes!  AND  OF
COURSE, the  guys  down in maintenance are playing `cosmic
ballcrushers'.   As  usual.   Well,  who  else,  um,  no-one really
interesting like,  ya know, oh hang on,  DTR is toggling on serIOus line
03D.. oh, no problem, it's that stuffed modem again.  You want maybe I
should send  some AMail to maintenance  and get 'em to look at it?   No
problem, dude.

What now, dude?

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • /uselss/libs/bill&ted/DUDE — this is the pipe process, usually started at system shoe, which lies idle until party ON is issued. 💤
  • /uselss/libs/eugene — contains all of the ordinary, ho-hum confusing computer-jargonese responses which commands ordinarily issue. text file. 📄
  • /uselss/libs/eugene.spoo — compiled version of the eugene file. 🛠️
  • /ephemeral/eugene.chex — checksum for the compiled eugene file. ✅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

crp(1), stuffio(2), doobrie(9), gouge(3), ftang(65534), wi(-1), edmond(29), jumpstart(2), vo_mit(992)

iykyk. 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

listen, bestie, we gotta be honest with you here.
  • the -n option can be slow. 😭
  • if the n option is issued, some users in a wi editing session may not receive the warning, restart imminent message until after the restart. not great, not terrible, just chaotic. 🙈
  • there is no way selectively to follow symbolic links. nope. none. 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! written up by Sunburne Computer, Inc., dated 9 October 1991, and this particular rendering is stamped Aug 18, 1997 — PARTY(1fun) forever and always. 💖✨🎀 go forth and party ON. 🦋

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