Re: Monkey texts

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene wrote:
 
> I have a copy of Jacques' good old monkey program, but as far as I
> understand, while it can generate arbitrary text with the same entropy
> as a given source text, this can only be shown on the screen, not
> saved in a fail. (Correct?)


Non, m'sieur, pas correct. Just press the right arrow key,
and the text you see on the screen gets sent to a file
MONKEY.SEZ (the text so saved is highlighted in reverse video
on the screen). Press the right arrow key again and it 
stops being saved to disk. Again and it is saved to disk,
again and... am I describing a *toggle*??? 

Monkey's gibbering is *appended* to the existing MONKEY.SEZ
(of course, if there isn't one, Monkey creates one).

I really ought to rewrite Monkey from scratch, in Euphoria
(terrific language, Euphoria, no 64K limit, automatic
garbage collection, no dangling pointers...)

Frogguy