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Not sure at all what's going on there. You might want to try to reproduce the problem with bash_enable_debug set to 1 and see what appears in the logs. To any of you who have been having trouble with the script exhausting its local cache of quotes when using random spit mode, version 1.4.7 hopes to ...

Just submitted version 1.4.6 with the new features and some bugfixes. Look for it to be updated in the TCL archive soon.

Is there anything else anyone would like doing to it ?

DJG

It will be done.

The /notice vs /msg option will be configurable in 1.4.6.

3zzy, I don't know about that bug. Have you seen it more than once ?

DJG

I've done more experiments and non-blocking fetches still seem to take several times longer than blocking ones. The new version of the script, 1.4.5, has config options to let you set blocking / non-blocking modes for the three different query types, so everyone can have it their own preferred way. ...

That's interesting info about egghttp which I didn't know. The use of both blocking and non-blocking modes in the script is deliberate. The non-blocking fetch is done to parse 50 random queries from the site as the regexp processing of these is very slow (up to 20 seconds) and I didn't want to go lo...

http://www.ali1548.ukshells.co.uk/bash.org-1.4.0.zip
http://www.ali1548.ukshells.co.uk/bash.org-1.4.2.zip
http://www.ali1548.ukshells.co.uk/bash.org-1.4.4.zip

Try 1.4.4 first. If it doesn't work on people's bots, I need to know.

DJG

Funnily enough I went back to my bot (where the script has been working for months), typed !bash, and nothing happened. I've looked at the script again and I'm wondering if there are problems with the floodprotection. I've just finished 1.4.4 which tackles this issue as well as fixing another couple...

The script should run on non-X machines: the "set agent mozilla" line in the config is merely there to fool the bash.org webserver into thinking that a request is being made to it from a Mozilla browser.

Try it, it should work.

This is now up to version 1.4.3, basically finished, and does everything you could realistically want it to.

Look in the scripts section for a download.

DJGrenola

I'm working on version 0.3 of this now which will feature the !bash <quotenumber> command you're after as well as various other improvements. Stay tuned.

By far the best way would be to find an XML parser written in C, compile it as a TCL module and then write hooks from TCL to the C library. Trying to write an XML parser in TCL is tantamount to reinventing the wheel. And the wheel wouldn't go round very fast, either.

See the egghelp.org TCL files list for a bash.org quotefetcher.