From:	Aristotle antithesis@**********.com
Subject:	Name Generators
Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:51:25 -0400

<Lady Jestyr wrote:>
"The best name generator I've found is Gurth's 'Game Name', available at
http://plastic.dumpshock.com under 'Software'. Lots of different languages
covered, and it's simple easy software. Highly recommended."

<Matthew Bond replied:>
"I just had a look at the above program, and yes it is nice and easy,
though I keep getting a type mis-match error using the russian.nam
file..."

<Gurth responded:>
"That's a known error, but one I haven't been able to find the cause of
yet; it also chokes on very long name files (like japanese.nam) for a
reason I don't understand either. However, version 2.0 (when/if it'll get
finished :) will use a different way of reading the names from the file,
which hopefully will take care of the problem altogether."

..:My Reply:..
I had the same problem with russian.nam when I tried it. I opened it up in
Wordpad and saw that many of the names were not on their own lines (2 or 3
names on the same line) so I went through and re-spaced everything to look
like the other files. Now it works fine. Took me about 15 minutes to fix.

I have to say that I have seen allot of random name generators and this
program is excellent. I also like how easy it seems to be to customize or
create your own .nam files. Now I just need to make one for Korean,
Jewish, and African names and I'll be pretty much set. *grin*

Oh.. I also noticed that the link to the Italian.nam file seemed to be
broken. That could be a very handy file should you need to run a large
scale mafia campaign. *evil grin*


Thanks,
-- Travis "Aristotle" Heldibridle