Silentradio Sign Programming
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**Fair Warning** 
All this code is very experimental/buggy/messy/inefficient/etc. I'm sorry if you have any problems figuring it out. Feel free to mess around and improve upon it. If you do make it better, I'd love to hear about it.

An Attempt at Explaning the Madness:

The .c files are C code which creates the correct protocol and sends the message to the sign via the serial port. There is a seperate program for each different mode. Some of these coorespond to the modes available in the DOS sign program, while a few others are additional modes discovered by experimentation. These programs expect a command line argument of the slot number you wish to place a message into. The message is then entered via standard input.

The .pl files are perl scripts which rip different information/headlines/jokes/etc from various websites and prints them to standard out. Some no longer work due to changes in the websites they grab from. As of 8/8/03, fatwallet.pl and tvnews.pl are broken, everything else should work.

The update.sh file combines the different .pl and .c programs to create a working system. I have this script CRON'd to run every half hour.

Enjoy!

Todd Roeder
projects@dickwick.com