think(1) - you don't have to think, the computer can think for you

THINK(1)                  User Commands                  THINK(1)

NAME
     think - you don't have to think, the computer can think  for
     you

SYNOPSIS
     think [ -detach ]

DESCRIPTION
     Think simulates a thinking brain.

     This can be useful if someone is not  wanting  to  think  at
     invocation time or if someone is needing some thinking about
     something.  It can also be helpful if someone's brain is not
     working correctly at invocation time.

     When invoked, think will go ahead and look  at  all  of  the
     commands  and  keystrokes  that  a  user has made during the
     current login session.  Think will then look at  what  files
     the  user  has.  From this and what level the user is listed
     at in the file /usr/lib/think, think will  figure  out  what
     the user was trying to do when think was invoked.

DEVICES
     The process that think uses to help a user is greatly  aided
     if  the  user is wearing a brain interface bus (bib) device.
     A bib device is normally worn on  the  head,  and  if  being
     used,  then think will try to see what was going through the
     users head at the time  of  invocation.   After  think  does
     this,  it  will  send  electric  signals to the users brain,
     causing the user to type in whatever keystrokes  are  neces-
     sary  to  accomplish  the  task  that he/she doesn't want to
     think about.

OPTIONS
     -detach
          also known as "Must mother do all of your thinking  for
          you?" - mode.   This options causes think to run in the
          background as a daemon that watches for users who  look
          like they may need assistance.  When a user is found to
          be exercising cluelessness, think will  lock  up  their
          keyboard  and  will proceed to execute what seems to be
          the most likely sequence of commands that the user  had
          intended to execute.  This flag may only be used by the
          super-user.

FILES
     /dev/brain
          bib device special file.

     /usr/lib/think
          file to indicate various user abilities.  The format of
          this  file  is a username on each line followed by some

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          whitspace and then a number.  The higher the number for
          a  given  user, the more likely think is to assume that
          that user knows what he/she is  doing.   Unfortunately,
          what  think  considers  a  large  number will vary with
          usage.

BUGS
     If a user is using a bib device and actually lacks  a  brain
     of their own, then there is a high risk that think will take
     over their (non-existent) minds.  This has the  upshot  that
     someone  other  than the user will have to stop the program.
     (Perhaps this is a feature.)

     It may illegal in some areas to force users to wear bib dev-
     ices.

AUTHOR
     This   man   page    was    written    by    John    Guthrie
     <guthrie@math.upenn.edu>  with  suggestions from Kevin Whyte
     <kwhyte@math.upenn.edu> for  the  alt.sysadmin.recovery  man
     page collection.

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Date posted: 5th April 1996