		       The Bastard Excuse From Hell 0.3

	       Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios@vennea.demon.co.uk>

	ASR coat of arms by Andreas Skau (http://www.fjortis.net/asr/)

Excuses from Jeff Ballard's Excuse Server (telnet://telnet://bofh.jive.org:666)


 This is Freeware or Open Source (take your pick), as defined by the terms of
		the GNU Public License, aka GPL, aka Copyleft.

Bastard Operator From Hell excuse calendar, featuring the original BOFH excuses
plus quite a bit more, all from the excellent excuse server. Complete with
Scary Devil Monastery coat of arms (thanks to Andreas Skau). New and improved,
with excuses in a nice PDB file and a Perl script to generate your own excuse
databases.

How it works: simple enough. The current excuse is also placed in the clipboard
for your convenience.

To make your own excuse databases: use mkpdb.pl to process a file. Remember to
redirect output, unless you like garbled terminals (I'm quite partial to them,
they tend to scare away all the wannabes and they're always a good excuse to
stop work, "while I figure out what's wrong with it"). But I digress. Here's
what to do, in case you haven't figured it out yet:

		       ./mkpdb.pl <excuses.txt >file.pdb

After this, just install the PDB. It'll overwrite the on-Pilot one.

For your convenience, I've included three excuse files, with their
respective PDB databases. You only need to install one of them. The more the
excuses the more the variety, but memory footprint on your Palm increases
too. Here are the files:

befh-excuses.pdb:    the original file.
befh-newexcuses.pdb: a larger database, kindly contributed by Brian Keefer.
befh-allexcuses.pdb: the entire (unedited) excuse list from Jeff Ballard's
                       Excuse Server.

Please let me know if you've added anything interesting to the source code,
or found a bug.

BEFH was developed under Linux [1], using GCC. If you're a Codewarrior person, you
might find things a bit unlike what you're used to. Sorry.

Have fun!
Alexios

PS: The icon reads "Ll" (i.e. Lovelace [2]), not "L1".


[1] Comments regarding Red Hat "Admins", script kiddies et al >/dev/null
[2] ASR unit of suckitude. Read the FAQ.



Change history:

0.1   Not worth mentioning. Really.

0.2   First public release.

0.3   No code corrections (could it be this program has no bugs?
      Impossible), but more databases included.
