Re: running a perl-script

I seem to have it working; there is a definite lack of instructions on
that page I will agree ;)

The simplest way to get it working would be to download

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/new-lc

and name files, e.g.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/english-m (English Male Names)
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/english-f (English Female Names)
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/english-s (English Surnames)

(or get your own from somewhere, e.g. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/)

drop them into a directory and from a Terminal window set to that dir,
e.g. to generate five new english surnames based on common letter
combinations, run:

perl new-lc -5 english-s

for ten english males names:

perl new-lc -10 english-m

for seven english female names:

perl new-lc -7 english-f

Then its mix and match fun time :)

"Harlos Swiste was a kind lad who longed to wed the miller's fair
daughter, Alina Crenn."

Fun fun fun ;-)

CK

On 1/7/07, jimw wagner <jpw@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
> I would like to have a name-generator, resident on my machine, for those days when I can't seem to come up with a good name for a character.
>
> Rather than learning programming and re-inventing the wheel, I went looking on the net.
>
> I found what looks like the thing at
> http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/
>
> It's done in perl. but I can't seem to make it run. Digging through Google, I got so far as to make it say, when I ran it, 'usage: lc-namegenerator -[s|#] filename'.
>
> Can anyone out there give me some notions?
>
> JimW
>
Received on Mon Jan 8 01:18:11 2007