response 351 of 1012:

Sep 5 19:33 UTC 1997

needle  0  (albaugh)
puddle  0  (bruin)
starry  1  (sprice)

response 353 of 1012:

Sep 6 01:54 UTC 1997

unease
 
I'll note that do.lm is basically a shell wrapper script around srw's
awk script for doing the counts.  It helps maintain your letter.match
file and lets you back out of bad runs.  The results of a run are
saved in a file so that they can be imported into your response here.
I haven't really changed the script much in the last year or so, other
than to include srw's script directly rather than calling it (just so
it doesn't get depermitted or moved to another location, for instance).
The script is readable as well as executable (I would recommend looking
over any script in someone else's directory just in case they did
something malicious--I don't believe I did, though :).  If you want to
copy it and change it, go ahead.  You don't need to be running the game
to give it a try.  It works for me, and I've been using it for almost
as long as I've been participating in this game.

"/a/k/e/kentn/do.lm5" is the same script, but for the 5-letter game.
The two scripts save their results to two different sets of files, so
you can use both scripts to run both games at the same time, if you
should be so lucky ;).

response 355 of 1012:

Sep 6 15:14 UTC 1997

You run <path>/do.lm merely by entering its name on the Unix (shell) command
line (prompt).  Its first line invokes another shell program it wants to run
it.  Meanwhile,

shucks

response 357 of 1012:

Sep 6 20:02 UTC 1997

Since you copied it, you probably lost the executable permissions on it.
Do 'chmod 700 do.lm; rehash' and then try 'do.lm'.  Or since it's a
shell script, I suppose you could do 'sh do.lm', but I think they're
easier to use when executable (and do.lm is set up to be run that way,
as albaugh mentions).  do.lm will prompt you and give examples as it runs.
The first thing you see should be a summary of what do.lm is going to do,
then it does it thing.

yellow 

response 359 of 1012:

Sep 7 01:25 UTC 1997

brazen

response 361 of 1012:

Sep 7 02:37 UTC 1997

OK. After chmoding and rehashing, sh do.lm works. Now, to experiment, for
when my turn comes again...

haleru

response 363 of 1012:

Sep 7 14:36 UTC 1997

claque

response 365 of 1012:

Sep 7 16:20 UTC 1997

flavor

response 367 of 1012:

Sep 7 17:37 UTC 1997

clicks

response 369 of 1012:

Sep 8 05:50 UTC 1997

flavor  6  (rcurl)
coasts  1  (albaugh)
clicks  1  (bruin)
cranny  1  (sprice)

Looks like Rane is up.

response 371 of 1012:

Sep 9 05:32 UTC 1997

unease  0       kentn

response 373 of 1012:

Sep 9 17:49 UTC 1997

needle