<chat> A bot that serves as a common database of information
(often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system.
Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding
to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries.
Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is
triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second
response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
<eesh> can someone tell me what: $num9 =
substr($number,9,1); means
<Tkil> eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr".
<eesh> just tell me
<purl> Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go
look it up in the dictionary"?!
<Tkil> eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell
you. read the documentation.
<Tkil> eesh -- if you haven't man pages or
perldoc, you can read them on the 'net.
<Tkil> purl, perlfunc?
<purl> well, perlfunc is Perl builtin
functions, at man perlfunc or
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/.
(1998-10-30)
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