The program generates a text file everytime it is run. This file may contain your name, your eMail-address, perhaps an URL and a random motto of the day. Most eMail/News-clients can add such a signature automatically to each eMail or News article you send.
makeSIGN runs under Linux, plain DOS, in a Win95-DOS-box and perhaps under Win NT or OS/2 (If you can test it on one of these systems, please mail me!). You should edit the related files under the same environment that your eMail-client uses in order to avoid problems with different charsets and strange characters.
Unpack the archive to a directory of your favor. If you can read this
documentation, everything should already be fine :-)
Documentation is found under doc/ and some example
configuration are placed under doc/examples/.
Take a look at global.h and edit it to your needs. Then
compile makeSIGN with "make" and install it by
"make install" (you might have to be root to
install). The executable "makesign" will be
installed under /usr/local/bin. The documentation will be
installed at /usr/doc/packages.
Due to the 8+3 limited filenames you will get problems with the HTML
documentation. When you unzip the archive you will be prompted several times
that the file makesign.htm already exists. You can overwrite the
file. Be sure to use the plain text documentation (makesign.txt).
You will find the precompiled file makesign.exe. Run it -
that's all, no compiler is needed.
The source code (makeSIGN is written in C) is also included. If you want makeSIGN to support another language than English, you have to compile it yourself using an different message file.
On a VFAT system, you will not encounter the problems with the long file names when you use a proper extraction tool. Everything else corresponds to the DOS installation.
makeSIGN version 1.33beta 99-08-15 a signature generator for DOS/Linux
Copyright (C) 1999 Christian Garbs <mitch@uni.de>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.