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Sam Zoghaib <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: The Random File Selector
System name: ranfile
Type: GNU

Description:
This project is a random file selector. It selects a file randomly in a 
specified directory and can perform various operations on it, such as printing, 
executing a shell command, etc.

It can serve many purposes, from selecting random e-mail signatures to doing a 
statistical analysis of the files in a directory.

Intelligent file handling will be implemented, that is, the operations 
performed will depend on the type and size of the file selected.
I also plan to add different types of encoding and decoding support, most 
likely audio (using free codecs) and gpg at first.

The project is coded in C, and does not depend on any library other than the 
standard C library for now. As new operations are implemented, it may rely on 
some other libraries (especially for file coding and decoding). If so, the 
libraries it will depend on will of course be free.
I am developing it under the GNU/Linux operating system but it should be usable 
under any free Unix-like system.

I have started developing this project because the few applications I had found 
dealing with random file work were neither complete (most could only print) nor 
efficient. Most were scripts designed with one specific purpose in mind, 
whereas scalability is an important feature of the project. One should be able 
do things not directly implemented (through a run-from-shell command for 
instance), and above all, one should be able to modify the code to one\'s needs 
easily.

The code can be found here; it is the very first version, and very few actions 
are yet implemented (printing the file to stdout, printing the name of the 
file, and running a command from the shell on the file). There are also some 
things to fix too, such as a sanity check (it does not check the validity of 
the arguments yet, as only a few people have been using it). Consequently, it 
does not reflect the usefulness of the project yet. Furthermore, things will 
get done faster if other developers join me in the project.

http://zep.homedns.org/sam/ranfile-0.1.tar.gz

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