Re: running a perl-script

Most of my stories are Fantasy, done in places that are at the social
equivalent of the Hellenistic Near East (but the languages are
different), so nobody has more than one name, with possibly a nickname.
What I'm looking or is exotic names. I've already experimented with a
mixture of the Old Egyptian and Basque data sets.

One has to do a lot of sorting out to get things one can use for names,
but a program that would take care of that too would probably be
excessively cumbersome.

Thanks very much for your hints; I'll go back at it during my off-time
(after about 10;00 tonight).

JimW

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> I tried it last night, though I think you'd do better using new-lc
> twice (one for a first name with a first name file and a second time
> for last names with a last name file since the prop command using just
> first names would make the last names out of first names if I
> understand the system right). The command if you do want to use it
> however is to add a 'pipe' character | followed by perl prop, e.g.:
>
> perl new-lc -10 name_file | perl prop
>
> CK
>
> On 1/8/07, *jimw wagner* <jpw@sasktel.net <mailto:jpw@sasktel.net>>
> wrote:
>
> I've got it working.
>
> There's another little app/script (sorry, I don't know the proper
> terminology) that takes the output and puts it into proper
> names. What
> one does is take the output you got from the first one, and pipe it
> through the second. That will be my next effort tonight.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
> Conrad Knauer wrote:
> > 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
> <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Epound/new-lc>
> >
> > and name files, e.g.
> >
> > http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/english-m
> <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Epound/english-m> (English Male Names)
> > http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/english-f
> <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Epound/english-f> (English Female Names)
> > http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/english-s
> <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Epound/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
> <mailto: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/
> <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Epound/>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >
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