Chuck I believe pine can do direct piping for signatures now, can it not? So you could run it directly. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Richard, > > The BSD Games package includes a program called "pom" (phase of > moon) whose output you see in my signature area. The way I do > that is to run a job periodically from crontab that checks to see > if the current output from pom matches the previously obtained > output, and if it does not, it updates my signature file. It > updates it by concatenating the pom output with the unchanging > part, putting the combined thing into ".signature" ready for pine > to use. I sort of forget it's there, to tell the truth. > > Chuck