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[1] From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: compiling dadadodo on macOS (73)
[2] From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: Re: compiling dadadodo on macOS (29)
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Date: 2023-02-06 09:02:47+00:00
From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: compiling dadadodo on macOS
Hi,
i found that dadadodo is available in C source from the link in the
webpage https://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/
not easy for me to compile it to run on macOS. any help about this?
with a lot of thanks
Maurizio
Il 06/02/23 07:36, Robert Royar <robert@royar.org> ha scritto:
> Date: 2023-02-05 18:44:07+00:00
> From: Robert Royar<robert@royar.org>
> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.375: ChatGPT as author
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 2:01 AM Humanist<humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:
>
>> But, I've not found details of this program: what it was
>> written in; how it did the random cutting; how the texts where
>> input -- by typing them in, I suppose? ... If anybody has
>> anything on this it'd be fund to know more.
>>
> There is a program that has been around for a long time, Jamie Zawinski's
> DadaDodo. I doubt it is the same program Bowie used, but it is rather
> useful once you have a large corpus of text that it can in[j|g]est. I use
> it every day to generate random sentences that I then massage into tweets
> and feed back into the corpus.
> Here is the help message from it:
>
> DadaDodo 1.04, Copyright <c> 1997-2003 by Jamie Zawinski (jwz@jwz.org)
>
> usage: dadadodo [ options ] [ input-files ]
>
> This program analyses text files and generates markov chains of word
> frequencies; it can then generate random sentences based on that data.
>
> Options include:
>
> -h or -help this message
> -o or -output <file> file to save compiled data in (- for stdout)
> -l or -load <file> file of compiled data to load (- for stdin)
> -c or -count <n> how many sentences to generate (0 = inf)
> -p or -pause <seconds> delay between paragraphs
> -html output HTML instead of plain-text.
>
> Remaining arguments are input files; these should be text files, but may
> be mail folders or HTML. (MIME messages are also handled sensibly.)
>
> When no output file is specified, sentences will be generated from the input
> data directly; however, loading a saved file is far faster than re-parsing
> the text files each time.
> https://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/
>
> It's also available on github--possibly in a newer version.
>
>
> Jawinski is an interesting person to "follow" from a computing humanist
> perspective. His resume includes work on a number of projects that are
> fundamental to the web and its reliance on text.
>
> --
> Robert Delius Royar
> Caught in the net since 1985
one of the things I really believed in is the idea of simplicity,
that life should always be moving toward more simplicity
rather than more complexity
yvon chouinard
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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
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Date: 2023-02-06 09:37:52+00:00
From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: Re: compiling dadadodo on macOS
really, it's been easy: from the dir where the source file are, a make
command without parameters is sufficient.
now the fun starts.
for those older like me, dadadodo recalls the old Travesty:
Kenner, Hugh, e Joseph O’Rourke. 1984. «A travesty generator for
micros». /Byte/ 12 (9): 129–31; 449–69.
https://elmcip.net/sites/default/files/media/critical_writing/attachments/19
84_11_byte_09-12_travesty.pdf.
Rubenking, Neil J. 1985. «Travesty with database». /Byte/ 10 (13):
161–62.
https://ia800302.us.archive.org/22/items/byte-
magazine-1985-12/1985_12_BYTE_10-13_Computer_Conferencing.pdf.
Maurizio
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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
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