Cowsay

This is a MSX-C version of cowsay.

Usage

cowsay [OPTION] ...  

-b borg mode  
-d dead mode  
-g gready mode  
-s stoned mode  
-t tired mode  
-w wired mode  
-y youthfull mode  
-e manually specifies eyes (DEFAULT = oo)  
-T manually specifies tongue  
-f select cow file  
-l display COWPATH directory and exit  
-W Word wrap on x column (DEFAULT = 40)  

-h display this help and exit  
-v output version information and exit  

e.g:

When no text is given the command will wait for text from the command line which can be ended with ctrl+Z. It's also possible to pipe text into the cowsay program, e.g.:

Environment

To tell the cowsay package where the cows are, set your COWPATH environment variable to the directory these cows are in. At the moment only one path can be set, e.g.:

set COWPATH=A:/cows

Add your own cow templates

These are the simplest sorts of cows; they are just a plaintext file with the ASCII that is the cow in it. It has extension '.cow'.

Use $eyes, $tongue and $thoughts in the file. $eyes and $tongue are replaced by the user-specified eyes and tongue, being strings of length two (if the user specifies longer eyes only the first two characters are used; if they specify a one-character eye it is padded with a space). The $thoughts token is the 'stem' part of the speech bubble, not the speech bubble itself. For a cow that is thinking, this is 'o' (dots leading up to the thought bubble); for a cow that is speaking, this is '' (speech bubble stem).

Any line starting with a '#' will be ignored, even if it is part of your cow!. If your cow has lines that start with '#' that should be part of the cow, indent the entire cow one space.

Example (the default cow, you can see him at the start of the Readme):

# e.g. as default.cow
        $thoughts   ^__^
         $thoughts  ($eyes)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
             $tongue ||----w |
                ||     ||

Developer notes

To compile the source code, use the ccfull.bat batch file. Don't forget to edit the batch file for the standard C libraries, beware that this line can't be longer then 127 chars!

TODO

• Fix bugs :)

Links

• Relearning MSX
  Greate series of blog posts written by Javier Lavandeira to setup your MSX-C environment and start learning MSX-C.
• Generation MSX
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• MSX Resource Center
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