Gibber V2.5 for DOS (c) 1994 Simon Guerrero

Gibber is a text-processing utility (yeah, right) which takes text from the
standard input and generates output which is 'altered' in a particular way. It
requires a dictionary produced by the 'makedict' utility (included with gibber),
which takes a list of words on separate lines in a text file, and generates a
file with the suffix '.gib' to be used by gibber. (A sample dictionary is
included, called words - N.B. this needs to be run through makedict).

When gibber reads a word greater than a set length, it exchanges it with
another word from the dictionary, with the same last few letters. It's quite
amusing, if you're a sad computer addict with nothing better to do.

The various options available with gibber (percentage of gibberish, dictionary
file name, random number sequence seed, minimum word length, number of letters
to compare etc.) can be set on the command line. Calling up gibber with the
'-?' option lists the available options.

EXAMPLES
		gibber < textfile.txt
(Gibber the file 'textfile.txt' using the default settings)

		dir | gibber -minsize 5 
(Run the output of the 'DIR' command through gibber, for every filename
greater than four letters)
		help | gibber -letters 4 -dictfile "mydict.gib"
(Gibber the 'finger' manual entry, comparing the last four letters of every
word, and using the dictionary file 'mydict.gib')

HINT: Because of the way Gibber flits back and forth through the dictionary,
it may be best to create a RamDrive, and copy the dictionary onto it, then
use that dictionary using the '-dictfile' option.

COMPATIBILITY
Gibber was written on SCO UNIX (actually Open Desktop V3.0), and was ported
to DOS and compiled on Borland C++ compiler with a few warnings (though I
ignored those! Ho ho!)

COPYING GIBBER
Gibber is public-domain and entirely free (although a postcard, food parcel,
gold bar, cheque etc would be nice), because it was Christmas at the time I
wrote it. Sources for the Unix version of Gibber are also available.

Happy gibbering - and remember, nubile snowflake is not abetting a goldfish
artichoke!

Simon Guerrero is Weirdbeard on Monochrome (telnet mono.city.ac.uk),
and can usually be contacted c/o cmtajb@soc.staffs.ac.uk (but don't rely on it)
