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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: [semi-OT] RE: Name Generators
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:44:12 +0200
According to Aristotle, at 14:51 on 19 Oct 00, the word on the street
was...

> 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.

Aha, that's the problem! I open .nam files in Notepad, and for some reason
this problem didn't appear in that prgram, while if I opened the same file
in Wordpad, it was obvious. Thanks for the tip :)

> I have to say that I have seen allot of random name generators and this
> program is excellent.

Thanks :)

> 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*

I'd be happy to stick them up on the Plastic Warriors site if/when you do
come up with them.

> 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*

I'll look into that at the same time I upload the revised Russian.nam
file.

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